Artists

Anne Burns

Professor Emerita (Mathematics)

Long Island University

Huntington, New York, USA

aburns@liu.edu

Statement

I am interested in the connections between mathematics, art and nature, especially the concept of evolution. Thus my mathematics interests are dynamical systems, differential equations and any area that deals with states that evolve with time.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Tangent Discs II'

Tangent Discs II

36 x 45 cm

Digital print

2015

An iterated Function System consisting of a group of (five) Mobius Transformations acts on five discs, four of which are tangent to the unit circle, to its two neighboring discs and to a fifth disc centered at the origin.
Image for entry 'Tangent Discs I'

Tangent Discs I

30 x 30 cm

Digital print

2015

An iterated Function System consisting of a group of (six) Mobius Transformations acts on six discs, five of which are tangent to the unit circle, to its two neighboring discs and to a sixth disc centered at the origin.