Fusion: Seeing Symmetry: Making Art with Waves

Have you ever thought about the intersection of mathematics and art?   Dr. Farris  has an entirely new approach. Instead of stitching together pieces to make a pattern, he uses mathematical functions called wave forms to create patterns different from any you've seen before.  Dr. Farris' talk will touch on some high-power ideas from mathematics, like group theory and number theory, but it is fundamentally a tale of art made from waves.  Don't worry if your last brush with higher mathematics was high school trigonometry – everyone can enjoy Dr. Farris' lecture!

Speaker: Dr. Frank A. Farris, professor of mathematics at Santa Clara University.  Dr. Farris is also the author of Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns. Princeton University Press, June 2015.

Sponsored by the Cupertino Library Foundation.