Norman Foster on Art: Moving

Norman Do Art Gallery Theorems

Imagine that you are the owner of several art galleries and that you are in the process of hiring people to guard one of them. Unfortunately, with so many in your possession, you seem to have forgotten the exact shape of this particular one. In fact, all you can remember is that the art gallery is a polygon with n sides. Of course, guards have the capacity to turn around a full 360◦ and can see...

Norman Do The Art of Tiling with Rectangles 1

Tiling pervades the art and architecture of various ancient civilizations. Toddlers grapple with tiling problems when they pack away their wooden blocks and home renovators encounter similar problems in the bathroom. However, rather than being a frivolous pastime, mathematicians have found the art of tiling to be brimming with beautiful mathematics, problems of fiendish difficulty, as well as i...

Commentary on Joel Norman

The two visual systems, impressively presented by Norman, could also be interpreted differently. One could be viewed to have advantage for early warning and response, novelty, symmetric construct relationships, and right hemisphere focus. The other could be more advantageous for full visual processing, familiarity, asymmetric construct relationships, and left hemisphere focus. The dualistic cro...

Education in Medicine: Moving the Boundaries to Foster Interdisciplinarity

Norman Geschwind

Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) was born in New York City on 8 January, 1926, where his parents, Hannah and Morris, had arrived from Polish Galicia 20 years before [4]. When Norman was four, his father died of pneumonia. Despite difficulties, Hannah sent Norman and his brother Irving to the Hebrew Institute of Borough Park, where he never mastered Hebrew [2]. His later years at the Boy’s High Scho...