SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

The Symbolic Sculptures of John Robinson:
Geometry, values, form and structure

February 9, 1997

Photos of A Celebration of Mathematics in the Arts in Honour of
the 90th Birthday of H.S.M. (Donald) Coxeter

Ronnie Brown's presentation notes from:
A Celebration of Mathematics in the Arts in honour of the ninetieth birthday of H.S.M. (Donald) Coxeter, invitation.

• How we met
  • Freeland Gallery
  • Knot exhibition at the Pop Maths Roadshow Meeting at 'Agecroft'
  • Further exhibitions
    • Bangor
    • Liverpool
    • Oxford
• His career
  • School
  • Australia
  • England
• Figurative sculptures
  • *Acrobats
  • *Umbrella children
• The Universe Series
  • Expression of space and time - our bodies are made of star dust.
  • *Galaxies
  • *Life
  • *The Universe
• The Mobius Band
  • How to make it
  • *Journey
  • We were shown the combinatorial Mobius Band by
    the blind geometer Bernard Morin
  • *Dependent Beings
  • Gordian Knot
  • *Immortality
    • *Bronze version
    • *Rotating version
  • *Eternity
• Fibre Bundles
  Making Eternity

• The notion of Space: a link between sculpture and maths?
  • Video
    • Mathematical notion of space
    • Pivoted lines and the Mobius Band
    • *Dirac string trick
• Knots
  • *Rhythm of Life
  • Torus Knots
• Life
  • *Chain of Life
  • *Replicator
  • Temple of Fire
    • *Sculpture
    • *Fractals - the Sierpinski Cheese
• Value in sculpture and maths
  • *Womb
  • *Courtship Dance
  • *Conception
  • *Embryo
  • *Maternity
  • *Mortality
• Structure in sculpture and maths
  • *Borromean Rings
  • *Creation
  • *Genesis
  • *Intuition
  • *Pantheon
• Envoi
• *Earth Time