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MATHÉMATICS & ARTS
Exhibit & Lecture
Initialy presented at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris. France.
January 22 - June 30, 2005

JEENER Patrice
Artist, copper engraver

Patrice Jeener studied engraving at the Beaux Arts school in 1963. Already influenced by the engravings of Escher and Flake's treaty on curvilinear perspective, he discovered at the Palais de la Decouverte and the Institute Henri Poincaré models of mathematical functions made out of plaster that he decided to use as inspiration. He later studied mathematics as an autodidact.

He currently seeks to represent in his engravings the many remarkable mathematical models and their developments in particular fields of physics.

Patrice resides at La Motte Chalancon, a charming village of Provence between Vercors and Baronnies.

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La Motte Chalancon
Hypercube tessellation One can tessellate an hypercube in a 4 dimensions space. The representation here is a projection from 4 to 3 dimensions according to the traditional rules of perspective.
C120 The 4 dimensions space contains 6 regular polytopes . One of them is composed of 120 dodecahedric cells. The projection here is orthogonal.
Olivier provençal The charm of an olive-trees is often optimal!
Gyroïde This spiral and minimal surface contains a curve logarithmic. This minimal surface discovered by Schoen has 3 periods and no straight line.
Minimal surface. The symmetry plane of this spiral and minimal surface contains a logarithmic curve.
Boy surface Discovered in 1902, this surface of the same topological characteristic that the sphere has only one face, making possible the reversal of the sphere.

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