Just getting in the spirit over the publication of Mariana Cook’s moving new book MATHEMATICIANS: An Outer View of the Inner World, a remarkable collection of 92 black-and-white photographic portraits of some of the most renowned mathematicians of our time. Our friends at SEEDMagazine.com have posted a multimedia slideshow featuring text to accompany each portrait and 5 audio interviews with select mathematicians. Great stuff!
I also wanted to post a few of my personal favorites from MATHEMATICIANS (which, by the way, would make a great gift for any budding math enthusiast!) Today’s selection is a portrait of Shing-Tung Yau, Fields Medal winner and professor of mathematics at Harvard University.
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On August 3rd, 2009 at 9:51 pm Britton replied:
very contrasty b/w’s, nice…
On August 24th, 2009 at 1:31 pm fotoveluwe replied:
i really like this photo for the angles it represents
On September 7th, 2009 at 12:33 am Jason Cook replied:
Minus the foot shadow, I find the light box created very interesting.
On October 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 am Natascha replied:
It is a good photograph. I really like the contrast.