Working on my portrait for #PrinterSolistice prompt volume.
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Working on my portrait for #PrinterSolistice prompt volume. Not satisfied with the regular 3 dimensions, I have chosen a mathematician who specialized in shapes in 4 or more dimensions. Like Agnes Pockels, or Marjorie Rice, whose portraits I made, this erstwhile housewife without post-secondary education made important discoveries & gained academic recognition after writing a letter to the right person. Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) had an incredible aptitude for visualizing the 4th dimension.🧵
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Working on my portrait for #PrinterSolistice prompt volume. Not satisfied with the regular 3 dimensions, I have chosen a mathematician who specialized in shapes in 4 or more dimensions. Like Agnes Pockels, or Marjorie Rice, whose portraits I made, this erstwhile housewife without post-secondary education made important discoveries & gained academic recognition after writing a letter to the right person. Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) had an incredible aptitude for visualizing the 4th dimension.🧵
When she stumbled upon the work of Dutch mathematician Pieter Schoute she realized that he was getting the same results for 4D polytopes (things like hypercubes, shapes which are 4D analogues of 3D shapes) using analysis as she was using Euclidean constructions so she wrote him a letter with a photograph of one of her cardboard models (a 3D cross-section of a 4D shape). He asked to meet and collaborate, which they did for 2 decades, until his death.
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When she stumbled upon the work of Dutch mathematician Pieter Schoute she realized that he was getting the same results for 4D polytopes (things like hypercubes, shapes which are 4D analogues of 3D shapes) using analysis as she was using Euclidean constructions so she wrote him a letter with a photograph of one of her cardboard models (a 3D cross-section of a 4D shape). He asked to meet and collaborate, which they did for 2 decades, until his death.
🧵2/After a long hiatus, when she was 70, her nephew, physicist Geoffrey Ingram Taylor introduced her to mathematician H. S. M. Coxeter, who was a grad student at Cambridge at the time. The two became fast friends and collaborated on geometry until her death. 🧵3/4
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After a long hiatus, when she was 70, her nephew, physicist Geoffrey Ingram Taylor introduced her to mathematician H. S. M. Coxeter, who was a grad student at Cambridge at the time. The two became fast friends and collaborated on geometry until her death. 🧵3/4
Coxeter, who became a professor at the University of Toronto and is recognized as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century, credited her insights and wrote about the life of his inspiring friend, whom he, like Taylor, knew as Aunt Alice.
#linocut #womenInSTEM #mathematician #AliciaBooleStott #sciart 🧵4/4
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