Visualizing mathematics with Nicolas Garcia Belmonte
Understanding mathematical concepts with visualization and programming
Mathematics is visual.
Transforming abstract structures into images is one of the most important thinking tools; even the all-time most read post of The Palindrome is about this very idea.
If you are a frequent reader, you know I put excessive time into the illustrations. Sometimes, drawing the pictures takes more time than writing the text.
For some, mathematical illustrations are not just educational tools but works of art. Nicolas Garcia Belmonte is such a person whose work I first encountered when looking for illustrations for the famous Hopf fibration when I found his interactive app.
That was the very first time I got to play around with an interactive visualization of the Hopf fibration, which instantly blew me away.
From there, I quickly found his library of works, and I was impressed.
His works of mathematical art go beyond software: wood cuttings, pen drawings, and 3D prints.