What is the relationship between Math, Art, and Science?

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Dear critical thinkers,

Visit these sites, explore, and generate two questions about math, art, and science:

http://www.mcescher.com/ click on ‘picture gallery’. What is the relationship between math and art?

http://www.goldennumber.net/ explore. What is the golden ratio and the Fibonacci Series? How might this mathematical insight be used to discuss elegance and beauty in mathematics?

http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/ What is significant about fractal geometry? What are the practical applications of fractal geometry? Generate a fractal here pattern here.

 

Questions due Thursday

Comment and respond to two classmates by Friday

34 thoughts on “What is the relationship between Math, Art, and Science?”

  1. Can fractal geometry be used to aid in the discovery of underground resources?
    Can fractal geometry be used to solve the the mysteries of art masterpieces?

  2. Can fractal geometry be a physical form when atom is the smallest particle?

    Since fractal geometry is infinite, then why is there death in nature when nature has fractal geometry?

  3. Picures of the universe look like a swirling fractal. Can fractals be used to find black holes, galaxies, and other such space stuff?
    Is the history of time a fractal? Can fractals be used to predict future events such as the formation of a black hole or the path of the galaxies?

  4. If history is made up of patterns, and fractal images are a continuous series of patterns. Can history itself be a fractal?

    If fractals are infinite, is our knowledge infinite?

    • Maybe if knowledge is infinite, then the attainment of entire knowledge is impossible. What about other possible knowledge?

    • Well, since we’re made out of fractals and we eventually die, maybe something does limit fractals. Maybe they in a way ‘die out’.

  6. Can we use math to find life on other planets ?

    Is everything in this world mathmatical ?

  7. How can mathematics help support science and art?

    How can shapes of objects open the fields of science and art?

    • I think of science as knid of like cooking. Before there were cookbooks, there was just guessing and no measureing. So I’d say that sometimes science can do fine without math.

  9. when drawing a person you must know the exact spot to position their nose eyes etc; to assure it looks like them, can we connect math to this ??

  10. how do we knowif things are made puposely or not using the number phi? for example the the ark of covenant built 2.5 cubits long and 1.5 wide making a ratio of 2.5 to 1.5 equaling 1.666… whih is close to phi (1.618) was it puposely made to make that raio or is it just being justified now that we know about phi?

    How can fractals help doctors investigate the essence of cancer and how it works to find a cure for it?

    • Relative to nature and natural things, I don’t think that things are made purposely using Phi otherwise everything and everyone would be considered ‘perfect’. For example, someone who is considered beautiful has proportions with the ratio Phi while someone who is considered ugly’s propotions do not.
      Relative to man-made things, you would mostly have to ask whoever made the object you’re talking about. It may be most likely that the matheticians are intentionally using Phi while the others are just eyeing it to see if it looks right.

  12. If there is beauty in math, then is there such thing as ugliness in math?

    It is said that a perfect circle does not exist. Does this mean that a perfect triangle/square does not exist as well?

    • I think of it as looking at a piece of art. Some say that art is mostly mathematical. So when you look at one of DaVinci’s works like the Mona Lisa and a five year old’s drawing, you might consider DaVinci’s to be beautiful and the child’s to be rather ugly in comparision. So therefore, I think math can be ugly.

  13. can math take out imagination in art?
    can fractals only pertain to shapes and lines only and not concepts?

    • Can math take out imagination in art?

      Not necessarily, Like when Mr. Dagler showed us a wood carving of the mobius strips. That was an art form based on a mathematical concept. I think math can open the door to creating many pieces of a art that we couldn’t make without it.

  16. Is the presence or absence of symmetry in artwork what makes it “beautiful”?

    Isn’t math a form of art?

    Does having advanced knowledge in Mathematics affect the way you view art?

  18. If fractals didn’t exist, to what extent would it affect art and science?

    If mathematics can relate to almost anything, can it relate to emotions?

    • I think that if fractals didn’t exist, art would be pretty boring, almost like one straight line on a paper. Maybe if we didn’t have fractals, we might not be able to repeat a lab and get the same results everytime.

  19. Is it in our nature to use and create fractals even when we are consciously trying to?
    Can something be naturally beautiful, artwork or other, if it doesn’t have dimensions in Phi or fractal structure?
    Do our lives, our lifespan, the events that take place, consist of fractals and the Phi?
    What relationship does Phi have with fractals?

    • Correction: Is it in our nature to use and create fractals even when we aren’t consciously trying to?

    • I think you’re assuming that one DID come before the other. Maybe one was discovered and utilized before the other, but they were both always there.

  23. Does your religion change relationship with math?
    Is there a sense that helps you in math?

  25. Is great artwork mathematical in nature?

    Are we better able to understand nature IF we can see mathematical patterns?