Mathematical Imagery by Jos Leys

References



2008

April Television series
Images and animations for Mathematics Illuminated a 13-part television series by Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Mathematics Illuminated is a 13-part multimedia learning resource for adult learners and high school teachers in math and other disciplines. The series explores major themes in the field of mathematics, from mankind's earliest study of prime numbers to the cutting edge mathematics used to reveal the shape of the universe.

February Australian book illustration
Three illustrations for a book by Burkard Polster of Monash University, Australia, entitled "Eye twisters", "Ambigrams and other visual puzzles to amaze and entertain."

January Poster
Illustration on a poster for a colloquium, "BMS fridays"
at the Berlin Mathematical School, Germany. January 25, 2008.

January Chinese book illustration
Illustrations for a book by Zhang Yanxiang of University of Science and Technology , China, entitled "Contemporary art of science and technology".

January Group exhibition, Paris.
Participation in a group exhibition "La splendeur des mathématiques"
in the Centre Culturel Christiane Peugeot January 21-29, 2008.
(62 Avenue de la Grande Armée, Paris)
See photos here.


2007

December Book illustration
Illustrations for a book by Prof. Vicente Meanilla of Zaragossa University, Spain, entitled "Las matematicas del arte".

December Group exhibition, Imaginary
Participation in a group exhibition "Imaginary" at the occasion of "2008, Jahr der Mathematik".
The exhibition is traveling all over Germany during 2008: Munich, Berlin, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart, Potsdam, Leipzig, Kassel, Cologne, Saarbrucken, Mainz.

November Magazine illustration
Illustrations for an article in Pour la Science, November 2007 (French edition of "Scientific American"), by Jean-Paul Delahaye entitled "Les pavages fins" (fine tilings).

August "Cto eto?" Ukranian technology magazine article
Article on my work in the July 2007 issue. (in Russian)

June Computers & Graphics article
"The Droste effect image transformation". Article by Jos Leys published in Computers and Graphics, Volume 31, Issue 3, June 2007.

April Exhibition
“Mathématiques et Arts”
Exhibition at the library of Paris XII university.
March 5 to April 5 2007
See photos here, and see the exhibition catalog here.

March Mathematics Today
“Mathematics Today”
Published by the Institute of Mathematics.
Cover image and several illustrations for an interview with Prof. Caroline Series

March Math textbook
“Investigations” Series of math textbooks
Published by Pearson Scott Foresman.
(Cover image.)

February What's happening in the mathematical sciences?
“What's happening in the mathematical sciences?” by Dana Mackenzie and Barry Cipra.
Published by the American Mathematical Society.
(Several illustrations.)
AMS bookstore

January Spektrum der Wissenschaft
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, February 2007 ( German edition of Scientific American)
“ Jos Leys – Meister der fraktalen Kunst ” by Christoph Pöppe.
See the "Articles" section for a copy of this article.
Spektrum website

January Journal cover image
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
January 2007, cover image.


2006

October Book cover
“Complexités. Aux limites des mathématiques et de l'informatique”
by Jean-Paul Delahaye.
Cover image.
The image is of a special sphere packing: gold balls only touch silver balls and vice versa.

August ICM 2006 Benoit mandelbrot Fractal art contest
Fractal art contest at the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, August 2006
"Indra Family" was one of 16 works chosen from over 200 entries, and these were shown at an exhibition in the Centro Cultural Conde Duque during the Congress
The image on the left is from an article on the exhibition that appeared in "El Pais" (Spanish national newspaper)
The image on the right shows the exhibition organisers, together with Professsor Mandelbrot and his wife.

http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2006/

July Topology conference poster
Poster for "XV Encontro Brasiliero de Topologia" July 2006
Universidade Estadual Paulista - Unesp
Rio Claro - São Paulo - Brasil
http://www.rc.unesp.br/igce/top2006/

June Maple manual book cover
“Maple Calculus manual”
“Student edition for Penn State University”
(Professor Ted Chinburg)

April Les nouvelles d'Archimède
Les nouvelles d'Archimède, April 2006
( Les Nouvelles d'Archimède est le journal culturel de l'Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille. )
“ Les beautés mathématiques de Leys ” by Jean-Paul Delahaye.
See the "Articles" section for a copy of this article.
http://ustl1.univ-lille1.fr/culture/publication/lna/lna.html

April Pour la Science
Pour la Science, April 2006 ( French edition of Scientific American)
“ Jos Leys, artiste géomètre ” by Jean-Paul Delahaye.
See the "Articles" section for a copy of this article.
http://tinyurl.com/jxhuw

March The Mobius Strip
“The Mobius Strip” by Clifford A.Pickover.
“Dr. August Möbius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology”
(Several illustrations of Kleinian groups.)
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/PICKOVER/mobius-book.html


2005

October Chinese textbook
New Media Art by Petrel Zyx
Chinese textbook for use at universities
Several illustrations
http://www.zyxart.com/

September Ukranian Technology magazine
Chto yeto? Ukranian Technology magazine
Cover page and small article entitled “Fractal Master”

June Année mondiale de la Physique
Année mondiale de la Physique. World Year of Physics, 2005.
Brochure, (in French) several illustrations (Penrose tiles and Hyperbolic tilings).
Brochure was also distributed at the « Salon de la culture et des jeux mathématiques » in Paris, June 2005. http://www.physique2005-idf.com/

June Sphere inversion fractals
Sphere inversion fractals. Article by Jos Leys in Computers and Graphics, Volume 29, Issue 3, June 2005.
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/cg/cg29.html

April A passion for mathematics
“A passion for mathematics” by Clifford A.Pickover.
“Numbers, puzzles,madness,religion and the quest for reality”
(Part of cover image collage and two illustrations of Kleinian groups.)
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/passion-math.html


2004

December SCIENCE Magazine
SCIENCE Magazine, December 24, 2004.
Illustration for an article entitled “ Taming the Hyperbolic Jungle by Pruning Its Unruly Edges” by Dana McKenzie.
Subject: Geometric Topology.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol306/issue5705/

November Wonders of Kleinian Groups
“Wonders of Kleinian Groups” Graduate Colloquium delivered at the University of Minnesota, November 30, 2004, by Prof. David Wright of Oklahoma state University.
Several illustrations.
http://klein.math.okstate.edu/IndrasPearls/Wonders/

October Course material
Course material for Prof. Wenping Wang of the University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Sciences
Use of IFS for 3D fractals.
http://www.cs.hku.hk/people/profile.jsp?teacher=wenping

August Set of four prints
Set of four prints ordered for the control room of Total’s offshore operations in Den Helder, The Netherlands.

May Stalking the Riemann hypothesis.
Stalking the Riemann hypothesis. By Dan Rockmore.
A non-technical account of the history of the Riemann Hypothesis, a 150 year-old unsolved math problem, whose solution gets to the heart of out understanding of the way in the which the prime numbers are distributed among the integers.
(several illustrations) http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~rockmore/

April The Universal Book of Mathematics
The Universal Book of Mathematics, by David Darling
(several illustrations)
http://www.daviddarling.info/works/Mathematics/mathematics.html

February Pour la Science (illustration)
Pour la Science, February 2004 ( French edition of Scientific American)
Illustrations for an article entitled “ Calculer dans un monde hyperbolique? ” by Jean-Paul Delahaye.
Subject : hyperbolic geometry.
http://tinyurl.com/fxyg2


2003

March Custom animation
Animation made for an exhibit at the Mathematics exposition of Munich Technical University.
http://www-m10.ma.tum.de/ix-quadrat/

February Math textbook cover graphics
Calculus, by George B. Thomas and Ross L. Finley
Pearson custom publishing. Cover graphics.

January Logo for the mathematics department
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Logo for the Mathematics Department
http://www.calpoly.edu/~math/


2002

December Biomorphic art: an artist's statement.
Biomorphic art: an artist's statement. Article by Jos Leys in Computers and Graphics, Volume 26, Issue 6, December 2002.
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/cg/cg26.html

November Geometrie und ihre Anwendungen
“Geometrie und ihre Anwendungen” by Georg Glaeser. Elsevier Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
Illustrations in a chapter on hyperbolic geometry.
http://tinyurl.com/rtmkw

October Lecture illustration
A lecture on Penrose tilings of the plane, by Sir Roger Penrose.
These notes are from a lecture given by Sir. Roger Penrose at The Pennsylvania State University MASS Colloquium.
The topic of the lecture was on tiling the plane and 5-fold symmetry. The lecture was given on October 24th, 2002.
(illustration)
http://www.math.psu.edu/mass/colloquia/2002/index.html

May Best in show
This image was voted "Best in show" in the 2002 MOCA
(Museum of computer art) contest.
http://digitalartmuseum.com

March Featured artist
"Featured artist" in the Digital art museum. March 2002
http://digitalartmuseum.com


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