The first title is easy for me to recall whenever I need to refer to the paper. ` The Bilinski Dodecahedron and Assorted Parallelohedra, Zonohedra, Monohedra, Isozonohedra, and Otherhedra'. Geom.: the Goodman-Pollack Festschrift, ed. ` Are your polyhedra the same as my polyhedra?' Discrete and comput. My memory is marked by the titles of two papers by Branko Grünbaum:īranko Grünbaum.
If you are a bigshot, you can get away with pretty much any title!.Titles that are bold, are usually short, have an element of surprise, but do not depart too much from the truth seems to be more attractive in general.ĥ.101 Mathematical succinctness might appeal to some people-but is perhaps not that memorable for me-so perhaps such titles are attractive, but maybe not memorable.To reach the broadest audience, attractive titles are good, though mathematicians might sometimes feel irritated by needlessly cute titles.A title can be attractive even without having memorable material.A title becomes truly memorable if the accompanying paper had memorable substance.A title can be memorable, attractive, or even both (to oversimplify a bit).Here is my summary of the obvious: Amongst the various "memorable" titles reported, some of the following are true: So, what have I learned from it? A few things at least. The response to this question has been quite huge. Nineteen dubious ways to compute the exponential of a matrix, by Moler and van Loan.This advice would be very helpful in helping me (and perhaps others) in designing better, more informative titles (not only for papers, but also for example, for MO questions). I was wondering if the MO-users would be willing to share their wisdom with me on what makes the title of a paper memorable for them or perhaps just cite an example of title they find memorable? This view was my motivation for asking this question almost 7 years ago ( wow!), and it remains equally true today (those who subscribe to arXiv feeds, MO feeds, etc., may agree). I included the original plaster trefoil sculpture which turned out to be the only one I’ve produced.Given the vast number of new papers / preprints that hit the internet everyday, one factor that may help papers stand out for a broader, though possibly more casual, audience is their title. All the others had broken or went wrong, but I mounted fragments of the failures on the wall. Five sets of manilla and cotton rope were used to do a translation of real world knots into mathematical versions. The usual knots were mounted on the wall. The large unknot took up one end of the space and cast some very nice shadows.īelow each one was a cotton rope of the same knot with the ends taped together which the viewer was encouraged to pick up and play. This piece seemed to be most interesting to the audience. I think it’s size coupled with the surprising news that it was really just a circle helped to bring attention to it. Overall the show was fairly successful from my point of view. I conveyed most of what I had intended with the work, and the interest level was higher than I had expected. One of the shelves fell off the wall, and the manipulative objects were not as clearly labeled as I had hoped. I may need to do a planned presentation at the next event. Speaking of which, my intentions with the beginning of the new year will be to make more work based on knots and have one more gallery show. I’ll be bringing the plaster trefoil to the JMM Art Exhibit in Seattle in a couple of weeks. I’m typing this a bit after the fact, but here is an update! As the end of the semester approached, I worked to put together a gallery style exhibition of knot theory. My plan was to have “real world” knots and their mathematical counterparts, along with some larger more sculptural examples of a few of the knots. I wanted some hands-on aspect to the show, as well as some sculptures in more of a museum artifact type of situation. I also planned on having an example of the application of knot theory which was inspired by this paper: Knots and braids on the Sun. I hadn’t tried to make a spherical object from plaster yet, but I had thought about it before. I emulated an approach I had seen in a globe making video somewhere a couple of years ago. It worked pretty well and was a lot of fun.
Sun sculpture in progressĪfter getting this initial hemisphere, I added tubes filled with plaster as I had made in an earlier project. The plaster helped them to hold a certain curvature. I then colored everything sorts of orange and yellow. It was supposed to be an abstract representation of solar ejections coming out of the sun in a braid-like pattern. It was interesting, but I did not include it in the final show.
#JUSTIN ROBERTS KNOTS KNOTES SERIES#
I may consider it again, however, if I ever make a series of playground equipment.
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