Bridges 2026 Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design
Clayton Shonkwiler
Artists
Clayton Shonkwiler
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Statement
I am committed to using geometry to understand the world.
Artworks

Grid
23.0 x 23.0 cm
Ink on paper
2026
The Riemann mapping theorem guarantees that every simply connected region in the plane is conformally equivalent to the unit disk. Conformally mapping a grid inside a square to the disk gives the part of this image inside the unit circle; the rest comes from inverting this deformed grid in the unit circle.