Books

Some recent preprints and publications in Mathematics, Art and Education


  • M J Field. 'Harmony, Chromatics, and Chaos', Proc. Bridges Conference, 1999,(ed Reza Sarhangi) Southwestern College, Kansas, 1-21.
  • M J Field, 'Color symmetries in chaotic quilt patterns', In Proc. ISAMA 99 Conference, (eds N Friedman and J Barrallo), Universidad del Pais Vasco, 1999, 181-187.
  • M J Field. 'Designer chaos', invited article, J. Computer Aided Design, 33 (5) (2001), 349-365.
  • M J Field. 'Mathematics through Art - Art through Mathematics', Proc. MOSAIC 2000 Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, 2000, 137-146. (PDF)
  • M J Field. `The art and science of symmetric design'. Proc. of the 2000 Bridges Conference, (ed Reza Sarhangi), Southwestern College, Kansas, 2000, 53-60. (Slightly revised version with color images in on-line journal Visual Mathematics 2 (3) (2000), dedicated to the Bridges 2000 conference. (online version)
  • M J Field. 'The Design of 2-Colour Wallpaper Patterns Using Methods Based on Chaotic Dynamics and Symmetry', Mathematics and Art. Mathematical Visualization in Art and Education, (ed Claude P Bruter), Springer, Berlin, 2002, 43-60.
  • M J Field, 'Forum: Comment l'art peut-il venir en aide a l'enseignement des mathematiques?'.(PDF) Mathematics and Art. Mathematical Visualization in Art and Education, (ed Claude P Bruter), Springer, Berlin, 2002, 168-172.
  • M J Field. 'Dynamics, Chaos and Design', invited article for The Visual Mind II, (Ed. Michele Emmer) MIT Press, 2005.
  • M J Field. `Mathematics: why get involved?', invited article for On Common Ground, Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute, 2005.
  • M J Field. `Bridges London, 2006', invited article for Notices of AMS, 54(6) (2007) 730-732. (online version)
  • M J Field. 'Symmetry and Chaos', Hyperseeing, August 2007 (available online).
  • M J Field. Review of 'Images of a complex world. The Art and Poetry of Chaos', by Robin Chapman and Julien Clinton Sprott (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005), Jnr. Mathematics and the Arts 2(4) (2009), 208-211,
  • M J Field. 'Using Mathematics in Art', Proceedings of the 2010 Bridges Conference, Pecs, Hungary, (eds George W Hart and Reza Sarhangi), 2010.preprint.
  • M J Field. Review of 'A Gallery of Chua Attractors', WSC, 2007, Jnr. Math and the Arts 4(1) (2010), 49-51.
  • M J Field. Review of 'Beauty of Fractals: Six Different Views', Denny Gulick and Jon Scott, Editors, Mathematical Association of America, Jnr. Math and the Arts, to appear (2012)
  • M J Field. 'GPS: Geometry, Probability and Statistics', Mathematics Teaching - Geometry special issue, to appear: July 2012.



email: mikefield@gmail.com

Professor Mike Field
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106