Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Dancing Euclid Proofs

Euclid is iconic not only for the collection of proofs that he has combined into a series of textbooks, but also for the beauty of his work. The first thing that jumped out to me was just how easy it was to communicate Euclid’s proofs into dance form. The simplicity of Euclid’s proofs makes it so easy to understand and therefore easy to communicate. There are not many other mathematicians that come to mind when thinking about interpretive dance, which I think really speaks to the artistry behind his work. Secondly, I was really taken by the way these shapes symbolized connections between two people. Despite the size of people’s arms not being the same, the dancers didn’t let that stop them from using their limbs to create connections in this dance. When I see lines of a triangle, I have always thought of them as just that, lines, now I will be able to see the symbolic connection of two people. Lastly, this article and video opened my eyes to the math and patterns that surround us in nature. This can be in the form of trees, shells and waves, all things that I have never thought of as being math related but truly, they are. Altogether, this article and video has made me think of math more as a living, breathing thing and less like numbers on a board. 

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