Book Covers

Closely related to the colloquium posters, here are some book covers.

Mike Starbird and I got talking about a cover for this text book, Number Theory Through Inquiry, written with David C. Marshall and Edward Odell, published in December 2007 by the Mathematical Association of America. The result is a visual demonstration of the Chinese Remainder Theorem. The image was generated in part using various Python scripts. The text on the cover of the actual book (not shown on the images here) was added by Carole Goodman of Freedom by Design.
Ravi Vakil asked me to do the cover for the second edition of his book of the above title, published in October 2007 by Brendan Kelly Publishing. There are many many features in the pictured pinecone and the arrows background coming from my discussions with Ravi, and which one should really buy the book to appreciate! The pinecone was prototyped in Second Life and rendered in Rhinoceros with the assistance of Bathsheba Grossman. If you have Second Life installed, you can visit the pinecone (and walk around the back of it!) here. The background was generated using a Python script.

Back to main page.

free hit counter


Contact me.
Last updated: 3 Jan 2008