CRC Press, 2020įreaker, Daniel and Alan Parsons. Tessellations: Mathematics, Art, and Recreation. Also see the newspaper reference, below.įathauer, Robert. My fish tessellation on the back cover (coloured by persons unknown) and two works inside on the page ‘Periodic Tiling’ ‘Nested Fish’, again, and ‘Interflocking Birds’ (Bellos' witty description). Articles and books, at the age of 60, I really should get on with it!īellos, Alex and Edmund Harriss. Indeed, as this one surely will one day, in just a few years, upon my demise with the ending of paying web hosting fees. Print has stood the test of time, the defining standard of writing, whereas websites come and go, in effect the blink of an eye. If it does appear, it will probably be of a vanity project.Īlthough I have so far favoured the web, this to me is just an intermediary stage before publication in print. No publisher is beating a path to my door. However, whether this will ever appear is in doubt. And then there’s ‘The Book’, with text taken from my numerous essays where I set out my thoughts (with ultimately publication in mind). That said, I do have articles nearing completion, on the Cairo tiling (after 30 years of study!), Cluster Puzzles and Houndstooth. In short, it's the thrill of the chase that excites me and not the kill, hence the lack of publications. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others. The never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. I certainly do not favour publish or perish! Instead, I follow the maxim of the renowned mathematician Carl Gauss, ‘pauca sed matura’ (few, but ripe), and he didn't do too badly for himself! Not that for one moment do I imply our respective works are of equal value that would be risible! Further, Gauss summarized his views on the pursuit of knowledge in a letter to Farkas Bolyai dated 2 September 1808, and of which I very much concur: Incomplete, or partial research grates on me. The delight of the web is of eternal revision, and of which I thus take the opportunity when appropriate. This essentially reflects my nature, of beginning something, and then taking the project to a near state of completion for publication, before essentially becoming distracted by new studies, with the newness or novelty aspect thus gaining traction, resulting in the old being put aside.
Although I have written extensively on the web, the converse is true on the more traditional media, as above. A listing of publications where I have authored or I am mentioned or have images of my works, with books, articles and newspapers.
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