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What I love most about math, is its beauty.
It is the structure. I think of mathematics as color, and light, and sound, and form.
When I think mathematics I definitely think beauty.
And I think when I see,
and what I can touch, and what I can learn about things
that I don't understand yet. That there's more beauty out there.
I would say that math doesn't just relate to art.
That math is art and art is math. And music is art, and music is math.
And they're all related.
That the underpinnings are mathematical and the things that we recognized as beauty
whether it sound, or we find in nature we find it coming from human handed art
that those are all mathematics.
I do try to paint still. I've done some fiber works and weaving.
I also sing.
I do a lot of hiking and camping. So outside of the classroom, I'm experiencing math.
For designers, math is a tool. We don't do math in some sort of academic sense but we
use math and we use it in a powerful way. We use it statistically to get
information on human dimensions so we look at statistics to kind of discern
what sizes are products need to be or we use statistics to get
information on the marketplace but also we use algebraic concepts when we try to
understand the science and undergrows our designs. So math is a wonderful tool
for communicating abstract notions.
Designers shouldn't be afraid of math,
they should embrace math and say you know what, it's one of my tools.
For students to learn design:
Mathematically, they have to know geometry.
That's a fundamental basic. In order to know geometry, you have to know algebra.
Beyond geometry, they have to know trigonometry. If they're gonna go higher,
they're going to need the kind of spatial relationships and change and flow that would come with calculus.
They may also need some of the more finite structural mathematics.
Depending on their career,
a lot of people do use their statistics in planning design, in business layout
So there's there's all different mathematics they could use.