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“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,” wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this idea through images of mathematicians’ chalkboards.
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While other fields have replaced
chalkboards with whiteboards and digital presentations, mathematicians
remain loyal to chalk for puzzling out their ideas and communicating
their research. Wynne offers more than 100 stunning photographs of these
chalkboards, gathered from a diverse group of mathematicians around the
world. The photographs are accompanied by essays from each
mathematician, reflecting on their work and processes. Together,
pictures and words provide an illuminating meditation on the unique
relationships among mathematics, art, and creativity.
The mathematicians featured in this collection comprise exciting new voices alongside established figures, including Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Alain Connes, Misha Gromov, Andre Neves, Kasso Okoudjou, Peter Shor, Christina Sormani, Terence Tao, Claire Voisin, and many others...
Do Not Erase is a testament to the myriad ways that mathematicians use their chalkboards to reveal the conceptual and visual beauty of their discipline—shapes, figures, formulas, and conjectures created through imagination, argument, and speculation.
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Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards
