@bodhidave @EgyptianAphorist @mcmullin @clarablackink @histodons
Mathematics and #art are human activities, and in a #mathematics paper
(on #conic sections, the #conics, in particular, and described in the
linked blog post), I was pleased to have reason to quote what
Robert Pirsig said about teaching #writing. I commented,

> What #Pirsig wanted, as an English teacher, was for students to learn
> to write what *they* wanted. In the end, this would be what everybody
> else wanted, which was *quality.*

But there's a difference:

> In mathematics, an essential part of #quality is *truth,* or
> *correctness* if you prefer. We take this to be universal.

Not everybody may agree on what is good art, but I think they should
agree on what is correct mathematics.

https://polytropy.com/2020/08/05/an-exercise-in-analytic-geometry/

Construction of points of a central #conic (here an #ellipse), made into a poster.

Details in my paper.

An earlier referee did wonder (before rejecting it): is it [really] art?

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol12/iss2/19/

#hyperbola property: https://www.geogebra.org/m/Un5jpvgX @geogebra #geogebra #mtbos #iteachmath #math #maths #mathematics #conic

▪️▫️ Making Static Noise From a Weird CSS Gradient Bug
by Temani Afif @ChallengesCss
at @CSS

#backgroundclip #conic #gradients #gradients #mixblendmode #radialgradient #css #webdev

https://css-tricks.com/making-static-noise-from-a-weird-css-gradient-bug/