The remarkable numbers π and e, I
No. 242, 1986
(Number theory, mathematical statistics)
India ink and pencil on paper, 32x44 cm.
Looming over an austere urban landscape, a tower stands, assembled from cubes whose faces are pocked with round markings. Below stand a church and clocktower, surrounded by monoliths suspended in space. Above, on a platform, a woman contemplates a sculpture. On the towers front wall is inscribed a decimal expansion of the number π, while on the side wall is the number e, both displayed in the form of black disks filling squares, row after row. Incribed too in this image is a fractal, a closed subset of the plane whose dimension is expressed by a fraction rather than an integer.
