Still Life with Mathematics

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Still Life with Mathematics

Jessica K. Sklar

13 × 66 × 46 cm

Mixed media

2021

This 3-dimensional still life is a tribute both to my dissertation advisor, Frank Wylie Anderson, and to mathematics itself. It features my beloved copy of Frank’s book Rings and Categories of Modules and a cup of coffee—mathematics grad student fuel. At the center of the piece is a print of Disciple, my love poem for mathematics (published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics in 2017). The chalkboard features content from the my dissertation, Binomial Rings and Modules (2001).

I miss you, Frank.