Since 1992, artists interested in mathematics and mathematicians interested in art have been gathering and learning from each other at the annual Art-Math conferences organized by mathematician and sculptor Nat Friedman of the State University of New York in Albany. The series was also intended for classroom use, and that aspect shows some promise. I met a teacher who is already using segments from a 2-hour videotape of program highlights to motivate the study of various mathematical topics and to illustrate the wide range of careers open to students interested in math. My final visual memory of North Bay is of jogging early in the morning in brilliant sunlight along the mile-long lakefront park. Even at that hour, the bay was already dotted with the boats of fishermen casting their lines.
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W.H. Freeman, 1998.