Intersections

A Public Art Exhibition

Illustration of the word 'Intersections' overlaid on a diagram of intersecting lines with letters spelling "Math, Art, Truth, Humanity" along each line.
Close-up of a smiling man with dark hair, glasses, and a casual shirt.

Jayadev Athreya

Jayadev Athreya is a Professor of Mathematics and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, and the founder of the Washington Experimental Mathematics Lab. He is originally from Ames, Iowa where he graduated from Iowa State University. Athreya completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Princeton, and was previously at the University of Illinois before moving to the University of Washington. He has held visiting positions in the UK, France, and India. His research includes geometry, dynamical systems, and the creative processes of mathematics.

Artwork

Ikkat-Functions

Print
24” x 24”

$500

A vibrant, colorful abstract artwork with jagged, pixelated shapes in yellow, purple, green, red, blue, pink, brown, and light blue, framed with a black border and purple mat.

This is a piece of artwork developed jointly with Nicolas Bedaride, Pascal Hubert, and Pat Hooper, growing out of our work on understanding billiards in prisms. This image depicts the image of a function from a piece of the prism to the torus, invariant under the billiard flow in a particular direction on a prism over a heptagon. It is reminiscent of classical ikkat fabric pattern.

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