As a self declared generalist* I am always delighted to find transgressions of the (po faced, spurious and entirely imaginary) boundaries between fields of human endeavour. For two different perforations of the membrane between mathematics and the visual/plastic arts, thank you to...
- ...my youngest brother, for sending me to The Institute of Figuring.
- ...Julie Heyward, for creating and sharing interpretations of propositions from Euclid's Elements.
*My own metaphor for the generalist in a specialist world is "cross pollinator". I also, however, wear with pride two descriptions bestowed on me by others: "busking academic" (thank you, Martin-Peter, wherever you now are) and "academic odd job man" (my sister in law, B, who is wise and perceptive in so many ways).
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Cross-pollination is interesting because there are actually two evolutionarily diverse, equally important components to the process: first the male/female thing has to happen, but then the seed has to be moved, usually by being eaten and then shat out by some cooperative creature at a suitable distance. We thank you.
[chuckle]
See my later post in response...
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