{"id":15,"date":"2012-07-06T12:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T12:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/?p=15"},"modified":"2012-07-06T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T12:29:33","slug":"the-mathematics-of-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/2012\/07\/06\/the-mathematics-of-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematics of Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition of mathematical art at <a title=\"ICMS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icms.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICMS<\/a> may not sound like everyones cup of tea but artistry is everywhere and mathematics showcases the pure beauty of the world. Prints, videos and textiles explored mathematical themes &#8211; surfaces, networks, connections. Of particular note were <a title=\"Sam Stead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timsteadfurniture.co.uk\/sam.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Stead<\/a>&#8216;s etchings of <a title=\"Voronoi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voronoi\" target=\"_blank\">Voronoi diagrams<\/a>, fibre arts from the ladies of\u00a0<a title=\"Math Knit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toroidalsnark.net\/mathknit.html\" target=\"_blank\">toroidal shark<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; knitted <a title=\"klein bottle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klein_bottle\" target=\"_blank\">Klein bottles<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0and drawings from<a title=\"knots\" href=\"http:\/\/tejalb.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Radhika<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was accompanied by an inspirational lecture from Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mathematics implicates motions and machines; computations and colorings; the strings and arrows of life. Perhaps the grandest expression of the beauty and power of mathematics is revealed in the quantification and qualification that which is not there: holes. Topology &#8211; the mathematics of holes &#8211; will be surveyed with a fresh look at the many ways in which topology is used in data management, networks, and optimization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He gave an overview of the dimensions of abstract space which ranged through the thoughts of antiquity &#8211; Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton, Blake &#8211; to those of today, illustrated aptly by a bagel and coffee cup. After the\u00a0audience\u00a0understood the basic principles he continued with a look at current applications in data integration, security and sensor networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition of mathematical art at ICMS may not sound like everyones cup of tea but artistry is everywhere and mathematics showcases the pure beauty of the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,18,19],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-icms","tag-maths","tag-topology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}