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String theory.(SCIENCE + ART)(artistic visualizations to represent maths, science)

From: Skeptical Inquirer  |  Date: 11/1/2006  |  Author: Pickover, Clifford A.

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."--Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic, 1918

I have written several books on topics at the borderlands of science and on scientific visualization. In these books, readers often find that the line between science, mathematics, and art is a fuzzy one; the three are fraternal philosophies formalized by ancient Greeks like Eratosthenes and Ictinus. Computer ...

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