User talk:Stephen
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Stephen Gendler Clarion University,PA Mathematics since 1969 Taught At and Mathematics pairing with Jim Rose in Fall 2001 Still include extesive materials on Art in my Excursions in Mathematics course. Looking forward to the workshop. how do I link to my photo at http://math.slu.edu/prep08/index.php/Image:Photo_1.jpg?
- Hi Steven. Welcome to the workshop wiki, and thanks for starting your user page. I'm writing this on your User talk page, which you can see by clicking "my talk" in the links at the top of the wiki page. When someone writes to your talk page, you get an automatically generated email alert from the wiki server, so it's a convenient way to communicate with other participants in the workshop.
- I edited your User page to show you how to link to an image.. pretty easy, just use the double square brackets. That's how you link to anything on this wiki, just double square brackets around the name of the page. You should note that your photo is called "Photo_1.jpg", and so on this wiki, that is the only photo that will ever be called that - it's a name that's shared by everyone. A better name would be "Stephen_Gendler_photo.jpg" or something specific. Don't bother renaming it, though.. this is a learning wiki and stuff like that is fine. You're the first one with a photo uploaded, so kudos are in order.
- See you tomorrow! Bryan 00:20, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you have some Philadelphia Museum pictures, but you're missing the #1 piece of mathematical art in the Museum.. Marcel Duchamp's "Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors". He wrote a long rambling treatise about how it represents the fourth dimension. He's also got one called "In Search of the Fourth Dimension", but I'm not sure Philly's got that one - they sure have a lot of Duchamp, though. Bryan 03:37, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Reference
A really nice reference for spherical excess (and hyperbolic defect) is David A. Singer, "Geometry:Plane and Fancy" (1998), a Springer Undergraduate Text in Mathematics. Not only does it do that, but it does tessellations in the three geometries.Bryan 04:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
