Virtual Freiberg Museum for Mathematics and Art
The Virtual Freiberg Museum for Mathematics and Art is a virtual museum on the website of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg .
It was founded in 1999 by Udo Hebisch . The works of artists whose work relates to mathematical subjects are presented in individual galleries . The museum contains pictures by Albrecht Dürer , MC Escher , Wentzel Jamnitzer , Johannes Lencker and Lorenz Stöer (also found in literature as Lorenz Stör). Contemporary artists on display include Anatoli Timofejewitsch Fomenko and Martina Schettina . The relationships between the mathematical subjects and the artistic works are explained in more detail on the corresponding detail pages.
Examples
Fomenko's works include, for example, the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram , the saddle point or discrete topology . Wenzel Jamnitzer referred to the regular body in his engravings . In the copper engraving Melencolia I by Dürer from 1514, mathematical motifs include a magic square and a beveled rhombohedron . Martina Schettina deals with the golden ratio , the Catalan numbers and the Königsberg bridge problem in her pictures .