Ancient portraits of mathematicians

Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru

About thirteen centuries ago in the northern coastal region of what is now Peru, a ten-yearold boy was selected by the leaders of his community to become, eventually, a great leader himself. As he grew older, he took on more and more responsibility, and finally he achieved his destiny as a man of high status and regard. During his adult life, he occasionally participated in a form of one-onone ...

Facial transformations of ancient portraits: the face of Caesar

Some software solutions used to obtain the facial transformations can help investigating the artistic metamorphosis of the ancient portraits of the same person. An analysis with a freely available software of portraitures of Julius Caesar is proposed, showing his several " morphs ". The software helps enhancing the mood the artist added to a portrait. In image processing, a facial transformatio...

Portraits of Buddhist Women

Multifaceted Mathematicians

Murderers , Mathematicians ∗

This article outlines the history of our visualization of the interior of the human body. It throws some light on the emotional context and the underlying idea of man. In order of appearance on the historical stage, the leading characters are: painters, murderers (more precisely: executed persons including thieves driven merely by need, women with illegitimate children, etc.), and mathematician...