WELCOME

Welcome to the Mathematical Photo Gallery. It is the purpose of this site to exhibit photographs which have their own intrinsic artistic merit, but which also illustrate some mathematical truth.

In fact, there is not a lot of mathematics in these pages! My idea is to give an introduction – a brief taste – to a topic, and then to provide a couple of links for further investigation. One of these links is generally a ‘wikipedia’ entry. These pages provide good coverage at the right level and further links, and also have a stable URL. The other link is often to one of my own web pages. This self-promotion was not my intention when designing this site, but as the site developed I found that many of the topics covered were topics that I had analysed in some detail elsewhere. So I apologize for this apparent self-indulgence!

If you would like to exhibit a photograph of your own which satisfies the above criteria, I would be pleased to hear from you. Please send the .jpg file and some details to me at the email address below. All exhibited photographs will of course be acknowledged.

Where a photo has been taken from another website with copyright restrictions, those restrictions have been adhered to, and the site is acknowledged with a link. If you wish to make use of such photos, please go to the indicated site and read the restrictions before proceeding.

To the best of my knowledge, no other material exhibited on this site is subject to copyright. This is not always easy to guarantee, so if there is any unintentional breach, please contact me at the address below.

If teachers and educators are able to use any of this material for teaching purposes, with the above proviso, please feel free to do so. Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated.

A few pages have internal links. These are activated by passing the cursor over the link rather than clicking.

And finally, if you spot any errors, typos, broken links etc please let me know. A site without errors is wondrous to behold!

Now, enjoy the exhibition!