Video: Geometric stationery sculptures by Zachary Abel
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you can find lyric poetry in physics, then in mathematics a creative personality can certainly be hidden. An example would be Lewis Carroll, the author of the famous fairy tales about the girl Alice, or Zachary Abel, PhD student at MIT, author of amazing geometric sculptures from office supplies and other little things that may be at hand. Zachary Abel teaches mathematics at US universities, hosts summer math olympiads, lectures seminars, and at MIT he is engaged in research in geometry and theoretical computer science. What role do the unusual geometric sculptures created by the mathematician play in these studies?
Polyhedrons and balls, as well as other geometric sculptures that Zachary Abel creates from paper clips and binders, pins and playing cards, rubber bands and wooden popsicle sticks, are needed in order to discover the hidden geometric beauty of stationery and other modest materials. This is how the newly-made sculptor explains his unusual creative works. Being a pedantic and diligent person, disciplined and consistent, Zachary Abel can spend several hours of free time, contemplating this or that geometric figure in a textbook, in order to then recreate what he saw in a three-dimensional image. And it doesn't matter what kind of material is at hand, because a scientist is the same inventor, only with a technical mindset.
This is how amazing figures are born, like Impenetraball, a dense ball of 132 stationery binders, or a "hedgehog" glowing from the inside, created from plastic lollipop sticks fastened with rubber bands "for money". What creative feats is capable of graduate student of the Department of Mathematics Zachary Abel, you can find out on his website.
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