2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Anne Burns
Artists
Anne Burns
Professor Emerita (Mathematics)
Long Island University
Huntington, New York, USA
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

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.

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.