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Math Encounters: "Drawing on a Skating Rink" featuring Douglas W. Dwyer
Wednesday, December 11, 2025
How can you draw in three dimensional space without using specialized software? Join Douglas W. Dwyer, Lecturer at Columbia University and Director at Bank of America, as he shows how you can create a personal library of drawings using a 'connect-the-dots' representation. Then, using the mathematics of projective geometry, animation, and multiple viewpoints, he will transport these drawings across space and time into historical photographs and paintings, demonstrating in the process the surprising connections between the mathematics of art and quantitative finance.
Special introduction by Roger Stein.
Math Encounters is MoMath’s popular free public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics. This program is funded by Simons Foundation International and administered by the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division.
Math Encounters: "Drawing on a Skating Rink" featuring Douglas W. Dwyer
Wednesday, December 11, 2025
How can you draw in three dimensional space without using specialized software? Join Douglas W. Dwyer, Lecturer at Columbia University and Director at Bank of America, as he shows how you can create a personal library of drawings using a 'connect-the-dots' representation. Then, using the mathematics of projective geometry, animation, and multiple viewpoints, he will transport these drawings across space and time into historical photographs and paintings, demonstrating in the process the surprising connections between the mathematics of art and quantitative finance.
Special introduction by Roger Stein.
Math Encounters is MoMath’s popular free public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics. This program is funded by Simons Foundation International and administered by the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division.
