The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart

As I spent more time around Alan and his cohort I came to appreciate the history of this kind of research and the ways in which our current group was modeled after his time at ARPA in the 1960s and then Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Here I should mention another branch of our research lineage, and another name: Reza Sarhengi, who was a mathematics professor, an artist, musician, and the founder and president of Bridges, a mathematics and art conference and community. Reza welcomed and supported everyone into the mathematical art community, valuing all of their contributions, whether they were pure mathematicians printing clumsy computer renderings and calling it art, or pure artists using triangles as a metaphor and calling it math.

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