Gallery of Theorems

During the  spring semester of 2024, I designed and supervised a project, A Gallery of Theorems, which ran in CU Boulder's Experimental Mathematics Lab during the spring of 2024 and fall of 2025. 

Students who participated studied theorems and worked to represent the key concepts studied using artistic mediums of their choice. The exact choice of mathematical content and artistic mediums was guided by students' areas of interest and included painting, drawing, comics, dance, and music. The artistic products produced contribute towards dual goals of visualization and outreach, making abstract mathematical concepts accessible to be experienced through art, similarly to how one can experience an abstract idea in a museum by simply walking by and observing. As part of the project, many students presented their work at the Math for All Conference in Boulder, CO on April 6, 2024. If you are local to the Front Range of Colorado and interested in having any of this work displayed in your space, please contact me at sarahllpetersen@gmail.com with ``A Gallery of Theorems" in the subject line. 

Student work: The following students worked five hours per week on their projects. We were able to offer partial financial support as payment for their work to many of the students. Alternatively, students could also choose to earn up to 2 hours of academic credit for their work. All work appearing on this page is original work of the students. 

Aria Moraska  - The Perko Pair Zentanglement: Knot Theory (2025)

Zoe Levy - The Probability of a Play:  A Markovian Lens on Basketball and Betting

Cody (Cecilia) Dicesare - Abstract algebra: A graphic novel (2024)

Emmett Fitz - Hexaflexagons, Group Actions, & Algebroids (2024)

Liam Leasure - Beyond Multivariate Calculus: An Intuitive Introduction to Differential Geometry (2024)

Mazzy Fennell - Building a Celestial Globe (built a celestial globe; also researched and created a website with instructions for building celestial globes that could be used in schools or other settings, 2024)

Clyde Kertzer - Representing collatz lengths of integer sequences (greatly improved functionality of Numberscope, and online tool for visualizing integer sequences, 2024) 

Nazhoné Morgan - Ni’hodiłhiłł: Beading, Navajo Art, and Symmetries (2024

Meena Ropp - Three dimensional prints of three dimensional Riemann sums (2024)

Noah Song - The Shape of Music: Using Topological Data Analysis to Analyze Scores (2024)

Ella Todd - The Natural Numbers: two axiomatic constructions (2024)