Patterns in Art
and Mathematics
The Visual Arts formed the basis for the 2016-2017 season of
the Bridges Lecture Series: each of the three public lectures
featured a mathematician and an artist. With an average
attendance of 180 and an audience drawn from all walks of
life, these lectures ‘tricked’ people who would typically never
attend a math public lecture into learning some math, just as
they hoodwinked a number of mathematicians into learning
something non-mathematical. The Bridges Lecture Series takes
place at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo,
and is sponsored by St. Jerome’s University, The University of
Waterloo Faculties of Arts, Mathematics, and Science, as well as
the Fields Institute.
— Benoit Charbonneau, Paul Craig,
and Alysia Kolentsis
by Malgosia Ip
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