David A. Reimann

@drmathart.bsky.social

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Mathematical artist making the abstract visible; mathematics and computer science professor. http://drMathArt.com #mathart #mathsart #generativeart #creativecoding

My name tag and Manifest button atop the exhibition postcard.
2026 white circles
The title is from the same phrase popularized in the 1960s by R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller. Fuller also popularized the geodesic dome, which has a related construction. This work is based on the 2,1-Goldberg polyhedron where the edges have been replaced with rhombic pieces of colored corrugated plastic. This piece is an abstract model of the Earth make from 210 pieces: 60 green pieces and 150 blue pieces. About 71% of the pieces are blue, which is about the same percentage of the Earth's surface covered by water. We are individuals, yet travel through space together, inhabitants on and caretakers of the same tiny planet we call Earth.
Here are 51 pentagons in a centered pentagonal pattern.
A pattern of circles. How many do you see? Clever counting should reveal a fun answer.
One single line (in a general sense) that draws 2025. Each row has a sine curve that varies in amplitude and frequency to distinguish between foreground and background.
The image, based on a photograph, is made from 1919 stippled X's. The size, crossing angle, and arm dimensions of each X is related to the original photo’s brightness and local gradient. The use of the X symbol celebrates her work on Hilbert's tenth problem and the common use of the X symbol for an unknown variable.
Here are 89 circles on a phyllotactic spiral. A nod to 89 being a Fibonacci number and the connection between many plant structures and Fibonacci numbers.
A flurry of snowflakes swirl in this homage to winter. Each snowflake is created using a random process and are packed within the image using a bespoke packing algorithm so that no snowflake intersects another.
41 superellipses on a rotated square grid. Because 41 is a prime that is one more than multiple of 4 (congruent to 1 mod 4), it can be represented as a sum of two squares. In this case, 41 = 4*4 + 5*5.
190 ellipses in a circular pattern.
The word MATH is transformed into the word ART along a meandering path from the top left to bottom right.
Happy numbers are in green and other numbers are in blue. The 4, 16, 37, 58, 89, 145, 42, 20 cycle is show in red.
A rendering of the Collatz sequence starting at 871 (in binary), visualized as an Arctic island. For the starting number 871, the sequence progresses as follows: 871, 2614, 1307, 3922, ..., eventually reaching 4, 2, and then 1 after 178 steps.
The title "Spaceship Earth" is from the same phrase popularized in the 1960s by R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller. Fuller also popularized the geodesic dome, which has a related construction. This piece is an abstract model of the Earth make from 210 pieces: 60 green pieces and 150 blue pieces. About 71% of the pieces are blue, which is about the same percentage of the Earth's surface covered by water. We are individuals, yet travel through space together, inhabitants on and caretakers of the same tiny planet we call Earth.
Four people on the sides of a square looking at their tangled hair that has become embrangled with the others' hair into a Truchet/Smith tiling.
Four people on the sides of a square looking at their tangled hair that has become embrangled with the others' hair into a Truchet/Smith tiling.
A flowchart for creating mathematical art.
Increasing amounts of horizontal shearing of the word chaos.
Everyone, regardless of gender, has inherent dignity and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We are a better society when everyone has pride in themselves. We are a better society when everyone is able to have pride in who and how they love. We are a better society when everyone works together to uplift and affirm the rights and dignity of others.
Bridges 2025 Conference Proceedings cover art showing images from the conference's art exhibitions in circles.
This artwork depicts the digit "2" with a root system filling a square, reminiscent of botanical illustrations. The digits of the square root of two (1.414213...) are subtly formed in the negative space along the diagonal of the square, conveying the relationship between a unit square and the length of its diagonal.
binary representations of positive integers one less than a power of 2 are a repetition of n ones. Primes are in white are called Mersenne primes.
dice distribution patterns
Three interconnected rings (red, green, blue) of 2x4 lego bricks interconnected to form Borromean rings.
Four levels of the pinwheel tiling.
The first 100 digits of pi with each digit represented as a pie chart.
A person gazes at Fritz Koenig's sulpture in Liberty Park, NYC, near ground zero. The new trade center building is in the background.
detail of my piece Mathematics is Universal.
A cube of 8 cubes with the facing corner recursively divided in 8 cubes.
Colored dots arranged in L shapes having the numbers 1, 3, 5, ..., 11 arranged into an 11x11 square.
A mythical map showing a large island labeled the Island of Mathematics surrounded by water labeled the Sea of Creativity. A spot on the shore indicates your location. A smaller unlabeled island is also shown.
The text "Math Art March" in a circular region formed from a tree-like branch-work pattern.
The text "Math Art March" around a circular region from a tree-like branch-work pattern.
The word "mathematics" written in thirty different languages on the edges of a dodecahedral form.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
Cayley tables in #LEGO for the five groups of order 8. The columns and rows are unlabeled, with red corresponding to the identity element. Discussion questions included on the lower right.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.
An artistic rendering of 2025.