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A Mathematician in a School of Art


By Tim Chartier

Proposals to change the courtyard came out of that investigation, including a sculpture based on Curvahedra, a toy I created that explores geometry and the curvature of surfaces. Tim Chartier: In 2015, The Guardian reported on some of your work, a beautiful new curve inspired by the golden ratio, aptly named the Harriss spiral (seen in Figure 1). Edmund Harriss is a mathematician, artist, teacher and maker at the university of Arkansas, where he holds the first joint appointment in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Art.

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