This website is dedicated to my two favorite
pastimes, music and mathematics. The music part is largely due to
the fact that my daughter, Nina, is a musician; and the mathematics
part? Well, because it just is...
Attached is some info on BezierDraw, a computer
program I am developing to help produce geometrical designs for
Christmas
cards, etc. If you like the logo on the left, download the program, try
it, let me know.
Vector
graphics
only, Windows only. PDF
and SVG
outputs supported.
Alvin
Penner
May not music be described as the mathematics of the
sense, mathematics
as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the
mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working
life.
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the
cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics.
An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain
as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more
anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will
he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.
- quotations by James
Joseph Sylvester, circa 1869