<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d96c5cc-7ddc-43fa-9050-45ad95b9332c/CEF4620B-FDEE-4A38-A051-D3CB2742F2A0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencenews.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><P><A href="http://math.albany.edu/%7Eartmath" target="_blank">Nat Friedman</A>, a retired mathematician at the University at Albany in New York, finds intriguing shapes for his sculptures through mathematics. Some of the most profound questions in math concern the most humdrum, everyday objects, like knots and soap bubbles. Friedman combined these<STRONG> </STRONG>by twisting wire to form the simplest knot there is — an overhand knot mathematicians call a trefoil — and then dipping it into soapy water. A film formed across the wire, and he then carved this shape out of limestone.<STRONG> </STRONG>Viewed from some angles, it looks a bit like a yin-yang symbol.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sciencenews.org/img/4EB798EB-D0E7-425D-B917-CD7B7629E32A" alt="access" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><DIV class="inset_text print"><DIV class="embiggen"><A href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/id/40021/title/mtrek_friedman.jpg">Enlarge</A><IMG src="http://www.sciencenews.org/includes/com.confluentforms.codefluent.php/images/icons/grayscale-small/magnify.gif" class="icon" alt="magnify" /></DIV><SPAN class="print">TREFOIL KNOT MINIMAL SURFACE</SPAN><SPAN class="description print">This is the shape a soap film forms over the simplest knot there is, a trefoil.</SPAN><SPAN class="credit print">Nat Friedman http://math.albany.edu/~artmath</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide">Mathematical art started for Friedman as a side amusement from his mathematical work, but it has come to be a central part of his life. Art, he believes, should be far more central in education.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CEF4620B-FDEE-4A38-A051-D3CB2742F2A0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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