2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Regina Bittencourt
Artists
Rebeca Regina Bittencourt Campusano
Mathematical Artist
MuArt Mujeres en el Arte; APECh
Santiago, Chile
Statement
Regina’s work reflects the beauty of mathematics. The work is handmade, full of colors and carefully planned. She works with a variety of media that reflect her interest in jewelry, painting and embroidery. Her artwork is an attempt to express the inherent beauty of the highly conceptual field of mathematics.
Artworks
![Image for entry 'The Four-Color Simple Perfect Squared Square'](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmit.bridgesmathart.org%2Frails%2Factive_storage%2Fblobs%2Fproxy%2FeyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTE3MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ%3D%3D--0c1cd0f93ef5fd47807faa9777e0b3ec065d9c57%2Frbittencourt_-_the_4_color_spss.jpg&w=1536&q=75)
The Four-Color Simple Perfect Squared Square
50 x 50 cm
Acrylics on canvas
2016
This artwork mixes two mathematical problems:
It is a Simple Perfect Squared Square of order 21, colored using the Four-Color Map Theorem.
The 21 squares are of different sizes that make it perfect; and simple because no subset of the squares forms a rectangle or a square.
The Four-Color Map Theorem states that any map in a plane can be painted using four colors, so that regions sharing a common boundary do not share the same color.