Article: Mirror symmetry V; proceedings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2007 ;     130 words ...9780821842515 Mirror symmetry V; proceedings. BIRS workshop on Calabi-Yau Varieties and Mirror Symmetry (2003) Ed. by Noriko Yui et al. Amer...conference and others solicited later--on mirror symmetry, or more generally string theory...

Article: TESSELLATIONS: How to Create Them.(Review)
Arts & Activities;  October 1, 2001 ;     148 words ...TESSELLATIONS: How to Create Them. Video/27 min./$29.95. Level...McNeill shows how to create three types of simple tessellations: translation, rotation and reflection. He designs...the shapes, he then draws in details to complete the tessellations. The artist's clear demonstrations, list of everyday...

Article: Tessellations, Making
Mathematics;      565 words ...Tessellations, Making The Dutch artist Maurits Cornelius Escher was, more than anyone else, responsible for bringing the art of tessellations to the public eye. True, tessellations have been used for decorative purposes for centuries, but the cells were usually very bland: squares...

Article: Escher and the Alhambra.(Globe Trotter)
ChildArt;  January 1, 2004 ;     639 words ......create complicated patterns, called tessellations. To create a tessellation you draw...experimented by making designs with simple tessellations. He would draw a picture in the shape...fountains and colorful tiles containing tessellations. Amazed by the mysterious beauty of...

Article: Quantum field theory, supersymmetry, and enumerative geometry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2007 ;     96 words ......used in the three areas of theoretical physics. The topics include general relativity, introduction to quantum field theory, mirror symmetry, and introduction to string theory. No index is provided. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

Article: TESSELLATIONS TEACHING POSTERS (Artchart Poster Series).
Arts & Activities;  November 1, 2000 ;     238 words ...TESSELLATIONS TEACHING POSTERS (Artchart Poster Series). Set of...18 x 24 posters takes the mystery out of creating tessellations while retaining their magic. Simply presented for...illustrated, explains what a tessellation is, the history of tessellations and how to create one using the basic types of ...

Article: Origami tessellations; awe-inspiring geometric designs.(Brief article)(Book review)
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2009 ;     103 words ...9781568814513 Origami tessellations; awe-inspiring geometric designs. Gjerde, Eric. AK Peters...Here he demonstrates 25 of his favorite designs that use tessellations, geometric patterns that can repeat forever, to make paper...

Article: Tessellation power. (teaching tessellations)
Sunset;  January 1, 1993 ;     375 words ......in Ruth Colton's fourth-grade class at Encinal Elementary School in Atherton, California, when she teaches students about tessellations--identical geometric shapes that interlock in mosaiclike patterns. Artist M. C. Escher was famous for his intricate tessellated...

Article: Create tessellations like M.C. Escher. (Art Workshop).
Instructor (1990);  April 1, 2003 ;     353 words ...Mary Bussman's fourth- and fifth-grade students at Ohlone Elementary School in Palo Alto, California, really know how to put the pieces together! Inspired by the striking work of M.C. Escher, the students turned math into art as they experimented with colorful shapes and interlocking patterns. In

Article: Tessellation Exploration (Grades 4-8).(Brief Article)
Instructor (1990);  September 1, 2001 ;     154 words ......world of two-dimensional tessellations. The program starts with...Teacher Tip: First, introduce tessellations to students by creating...Then, let them create tessellations using the program on the...

Article: Devil to play.(Wooster Group)
Artforum International;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......also its disorienting density. A viper has bitten me, a bitter viper: Language devouring its tail, the phrase has a skewed mirror symmetry, a paradoxical logic that shouldn't make sense but does. All this has a Wooster Group history, as does the line's wit...

Article: Modular forms and string duality; proceedings.(Brief article)(Book review)
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2008 ;     178 words ......modular and quasi-modular forms in string theory and related themes, while physicists enlightened mathematicians on aspects of mirror symmetry and topological string theory that have inspired new developments in number theory, algebraic and arithmetic geometry, toric...

Article: Advances in string theory; the First Sowers Workshop in Theoretical Physics; proceedings.(Brief article)(Book review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2009 ;     197 words ......Greenspoon (mathematics, U. of Michigan) and their contributors cover a wide range of subjects, including Gromov-Witten theory, mirror symmetry in complex and symplectic geometry, and important ramifications in enumerative geometry, with specific papers addressing...

Article: Integer points in polyhedra--geometry, number theory, representation theory, algebra, optimization, statistics; proceedings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  June 1, 2008 ;     159 words ......book is suitable for researchers and graduate students interested in combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra, optimization, discrete geometry, statistics, mirror symmetry, and geometry of numbers. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)