Robert Straight gets the picture on prime numbers in a unique manner. A professor of painting at the University of Delaware, Straight had his work on display at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, through the end of September. In the exhibit, “Toroids and Plaids,” Straight uses prime numbers to construct forms and establish color placement on the canvas.
On April 5, 2005, I received a message from Leigh Simmons, a student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She wrote that she was part of a team in a Visualizing Physics class, developing a magazine on modern high-energy physics targeting the general public and high-school students in Minnesota. She asked whether I would agree to discuss the scientific aspect of their project with her team.
She wrote: “At the very least, we want to encourage students to be open-minded about modern theory, such as supersymmetry and strings, and future developments in physics.”