People behind
the mathematics

Generative art carries a history. Meet the people whose discoveries, proofs and algorithms make these drawings possible.

Alexander Benjamin Spaeth

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Archimedes

c. 287–c. 212 BCE

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Benoît Mandelbrot

1924–2010

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Boris Delaunay

1890–1980

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Bruno Jobard

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Chaim Goodman-Strauss

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Craig S. Kaplan

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David Hilbert

1862–1943

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David Smith

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Edward Lorenz

1917–2008

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Ernst Chladni

1756–1827

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Gabriel Lamé

1795–1870

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Georgy Voronoy

1868–1908

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Heinz Hopf

1894–1971

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Helge von Koch

1870–1924

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Helmut Vogel

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James Terrell

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Joseph Samuel Myers

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Leonardo of Pisa

c. 1170–c. 1240–50

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Michael Barnsley

born 1946

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Piet Hein

1905–1996

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Roger Penrose

born 1931

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Sébastien Truchet

1657–1729

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Theodoros Dounas

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Wilfrid Lefer

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