Geometric fantasy
No. 200, 1971
(Extra-mathematical associations in mathematical images)
India ink and color pencil on paper, 61 x 85 cm .
In this geometric fantasy, nonrigid forms dominate the landscape, which is itself an amalgam of waves and undulating shapes. On the horizon, clouds hang almost as if a forest fire were burning into the night, while below, the sea seems to wash up against a shore, leaving bare a drifting sculpture that punctuates the central space. Among the mathematical ideas interwoven into this scene are singular points of algebraic functions, Fourier series, fractals, dynamical systems, strange attractors, wave fronts, periodic mappings, and orbits of the action of discrete groups.
