The artist
Roland was the uncle of mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose, famous for his impossible Penrose steps.
Ok, I just gotta pause, take a breath, and say - the selection of art in this instance has consistently been beyond outstanding. So many surprises such as this. A Penrose doing abstract art with mathematical underpinings… so delightfully fitting.
I’ve loved the history of art for decades now, yet in every regular wave of images posted here by you, I discover so many things I never knew existed.
That’s good to hear thank you. I was rummaging for film related art and looked at Inception, then Penrose steps then I realised his uncle was a painter - it’s all new to me .
Among so many other wonderful things, Roger Penrose contained in a single image the mathematics of infinity in our universe, which then can be folded open mathematically further, to reveal a chain of universes in a multiverse.
An adaptation or upgrade of the Minkowski 4D space diagram (extremely useful in Einstein Relativity, integrating movement through space and time), it’s now called a Penrose Diagram, no less.
Look at it for a minute. It is deceptively simple. It took generations of great minds to slowly distill to maximum visual simplicity a mathematical expression that encompasses something as wildly vast as an infinite universe with finite speed of causality/information.
Wow!
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