Anne Burns

Professor Emerita (Mathematics)
Mathematics Department, Long Island University
Huntington, New York, USA

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.

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.

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.