2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Ethan Bolker and Hiroko Takano
Artists
Ethan Bolker
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
UMass Boston
Boston, MA
Statement
Ethan Bolker has built mathematical models ever since he read Hugo Steinhaus's "Mathematical Snapshots" more than 60 years ago. Hiroko Takano is a mathematical technician at the National Museum of Mathematics.
Artworks
Stellated Dodecahedron
20 x 20 x 20 cm
paper
2019
Paolo Uccello, Johannes Kepler and M. C. Escher drew the small
stellated dodecahedron. You can fold one from its net of 60 isosceles
triangles - but it's better built by weaving together twelve
nonconvex interlocking pentagrammatical faces. No tape. No glue.
We're still trying assemble the great stellated dodecahdron from the same
ingredients.