I'm "cheating" a bit. I'm actually posting this on January 17, 2018, a year and a half after my sabbatical, but two months ago opportunity came up to revisit the amazing city of Edinburgh.
Even though I was there "just for fun" this time, I couldn't help but look into some of the things related to math that I had missed initially. One mathematician I'm quite interested in is
Roger Penrose whose "impossible shapes" made it into the movie
Inception.
Penrose's mathematical work takes inspiration from many places, including the world of art. He collaborated with artist M. C. Escher, and he had an uncle who was an artist and a collector of surrealist art. This uncle was Roland Penrose, and his collection is housed at "Modern Two" in Edinburgh. The rest of this blog consists of photographs I took in the
Roland Penrose Gallery of "Modern Two." They may give a sense of one influence in the life of mathematician Roger Penrose.
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| Maternity by Miro |
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| Never Again by Tanguy |
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| Magritte |
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| The Black Flag by Magritte |
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| Untitled by Roland Penrose |
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| The Joy of Living by Ernst |
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| Hat in Hand, Hat on Head by Ernst |
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| Roland Penrose |
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