Jana Kopfová
As a child, I dreamed to study mathematics and art. I became a
professional mathematician and my love of art is my hobby. I am trying
to spread the beauty of mathematics through all what I do—through my
lectures, through math circles to high school students, through
animated movies about math, which I helped to create, and lately also
through my art creations. I love flowers and geometrical designs and
playing with colours. Spirals, tilings and geometry are themes which
continually inspire me.
There are exactly 15 different pentagons which can be used to tile
the plane. That is fascinating. Even more fascinating is that you
can tile a plane with the same pentagons in such a way that
spirals emerge. Both pieces are based on the same pentagonal
tiling of the plane, each is coloured differently and on each you
can observe different spirals. Actually are both really spirals?
How do you define a spiral? Try to play with those provoking
questions.