Math And Math Essay

Over the course of these past few weeks we have learned all sorts of math that we will utilize in our everyday lives. They have all been very interesting; my favorite subjects were learning about how voting works and how to calculate owning a home. For our final math project in our math modeling class, we had to choose a topic that interested us yet had something to do with mathematics. For this presentation, I decided to research the history of math and art and how the two have been used together to create amazing artwork.
This project most definitely gave me the opportunity to extend some research into history behind all mathematics and art. Art and math have quite the long, historical relationship. Math has been used to create works of art such as perspectives, golden rectangles, fractals, and even visualizations of the fourth dimension, and art has been used to expand mathematical knowledge like how artistic perspective shaped the drawing of mathematical diagrams; as da Vinci showed.
The ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks knew about the golden ratio, regarded as a number that can be found when a line or shape is divided into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length or shape divided by the longer part. The Ancient Greeks and Romans incorporated it and other mathematical relationships, such as the triangle with a 3:4:5 ratio, into the design of monuments including the Great Pyramid, the Colosseum, and the Parthenon. Artists who have been inspired by mathematics and studied mathematics include the Greek sculptor Polykleitos, who created a series of mathematical proportions for carving the ‘perfect’ nude male figurine. Renaissance painters such as Piero della Francesca an...

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...o different positions within the same image; he is simultaneously within a circle and a square. Energy and movement are indicated by the figure's active legs and arms. The thin lines on his form show the important points of the proportion scheme and suggest Leonardo’s concern with the architectural meaning of the work. Leonardo is supposedly representing the body as a building.
As you can see, if it were not for math, none of these incredible artists and creations would exist. Today, when we think of these art forms and we have no idea what it really took to invent them. I know I did until researching how incredible mathematics can really be. This research project opened my eyes completely and allowed me to appreciate art and mathematics more. This topic fascinated me immensely and I got so much out of it that I only hope you will too once you view my presentation.