Mariana Cook’s portraits of renowned MATHEMATICIANS, on SEED

July 21, 2009 by Andrew DeSio

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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Comments

Britton says:

August 3, 2009 at 9:51 pm

very contrasty b/w’s, nice…
fotoveluwe says:

August 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm

i really like this photo for the angles it represents
Jason Cook says:

September 7, 2009 at 12:33 am

Minus the foot shadow, I find the light box created very interesting.
Natascha says:

October 3, 2009 at 11:00 am

It is a good photograph. I really like the contrast.

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