Category Archives: Art

Alef Corner: Math Collaboration

Posted on September 4, 2020 by

Another artistic view by Alef on mathematical collaboration.   Other Alef’s corner posts

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Alef’s Corner: Math Collaboration 2

Posted on September 2, 2020 by

Other Alef’s corner posts

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Alef’s corner: Bicycles and the Art of Planar Random Maps

Posted on September 17, 2019 by

The artist behind Alef’s corner has a few mathematical designs and here are two new ones. (See Alef’s  website offering over 100 T-shirt designs.)   which was used for the official T-shirt for Jean-François Le Gall’s birthday conference. See also … Continue reading →

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Alef’s Corner: T-Shirts

Posted on October 27, 2018 by

The artist behind Alef’s corner has now a website offering over 100 T-shirt designs. In addition to a few pictures related to  mathematics there are many in a few other categories: “Jazz,” “Urban,” “Nature,” “Signature design,” and “Sea”. Here are … Continue reading →

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Alef’s Corner: Garbanzo Poisson process

Posted on September 11, 2018 by

Alef’s previous corner: There is still a small gap in the proof.  

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Alef’s Corner: There is Still a Small Gap in the Proof

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The World of Michael Burt: When Architecture, Mathematics, and Art meet.

Posted on October 1, 2017 by

  This remarkable 3D geometric object tiles space! It is related to a theory of “spacial networks” extensively studied by Michael Burt and a few of his students. The network associated to this object is described in the picture below. … Continue reading →

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Updates (belated) Between New Haven, Jerusalem, and Tel-Aviv

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

This is a (very much) belated update post from the beginning of March (2016). New Haven I spent six weeks in February (2016) in New Haven. It was very nice to get back to Yale after more than two years. Here … Continue reading →

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Carmella Kalai (1926-2015)

Posted on August 2, 2015 by

My beloved mother Carmella Kalai passed away last week. With me, 1956 My father Hanoch Kalai, my mother Carmella, My sister Tamar (Tami) and me around 1957).

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Ann Lehman’s Sculpture Based on Herb Scarf’s Maximal Lattice Free Convex Bodies

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Maximal lattice-free convex bodies introduced by Herb Scarf and the related complex of maximal lattice free simplices (also known as the Scarf complex) are remarkable geometric constructions with deep connections to combinatorics, convex geometry, integer programming, game theory, fixed point computations, … Continue reading →

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