Fomenko A.T.
MATHEMATICAL IMPRESSIONS

AMS (American Mathematical Society), USA,Provedence, 1990.

POSTERS BY ANATOLY FOMENKO

The music club "Topaz" in the Mechanics - Mathematics Department of Moscow University

No. 191, 1976

(Extra-mathematical associations in mathematical images)

India ink and pencil on paper, 40 x 75 cm.

Portraits of mathematicians and physicists — the former directors of students' music club Topaz (Moscow University) — fill this scene . Scattered amid the busts of persons are various musical and mathematical images, woven together into a busy and complicated setting. In the background sits a radio, besides which hovers a phonograph needle. Toward the foreground, a broken record lies beside the tail of a figure's dragging garment. Bottles, cups, glasses, a pipe, a shoe, are all strewn about, along with sundry other items. Meanwhile, seated to the right, the composer Anton Bruckner, whose musical works were a favorite of the club, casts a watchful eye over the entire scene.


The music club Topaz  in the Mechanics - Mathematics  Department of Moscow University