Crockett Johnson painted math
Shared because I might know a few math geeks, or a few people who adored the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. And if you didn't adore Harold, I'm simply going to assume you had a deprived childhood and never knew him.
Then there was Atlas the Mental Genius, a Barnaby character. This odd guest star had a unique habit of speaking in complex algebraic equations. In the beginning, these equations were numerical nonsense, but in later printings of the strips, Johnson went back and replaced them with actual math that could be solved to “say” something. While Barnaby was a fairly sophisticated strip, the inclusion of college-level math was still an odd choice. “Mathematicians thought it was genius, but only mathematicians thought it was genius, because they were the only ones who got the joke,” says Nel.
The Artful Precision of the Creator of ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’
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Then there was Atlas the Mental Genius, a Barnaby character. This odd guest star had a unique habit of speaking in complex algebraic equations. In the beginning, these equations were numerical nonsense, but in later printings of the strips, Johnson went back and replaced them with actual math that could be solved to “say” something. While Barnaby was a fairly sophisticated strip, the inclusion of college-level math was still an odd choice. “Mathematicians thought it was genius, but only mathematicians thought it was genius, because they were the only ones who got the joke,” says Nel.
The Artful Precision of the Creator of ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’
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