helaman ferguson sculpture: Sing Stenger I

Collection:

Professor Frank Stenger, University of Utahy

Exhibitions:

Joint Meetings of the AMS, MAA, SIAM, Phoenix, January 2004

Provenance:

Commissioned by Dr. Frank Stenger after seeing the Sinc Ring I at ICIAM Sydney 2003.

Special engraving:

sin(πt)/(πt) = Π_{n ≥ 1} (1 - t^2/n^2)

Dimensions:

12" x 12½" x 12½"

Weight:

40 lbs

Materials:

Silicon bronze, antique verde patina

Price:

available from the artist

Frank Stenger is a guru on theory and applications of the sinc function. (give one of his book references).

The sinc function was the logo for ICIAM Sydney 2003; ICIAM is held every four years, the next one is in Zurich 2007, the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. This piece embodies the sinc interpolatory function and cnvolves it with some natural features of the Australasian continent, its geology and marsupials--parabolic trajectories, inselbergs, and gnammas.

Photo credit, Sunforge Studios