Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: Where can I purchase posters / prints /etc of these images?
  A: The copyright for the images remains with the individual contributors. If there is a particular image you are interested in, you might try to contact the mathematician in question.
  Currently I have no plans to make prints of my own images available, although I may change my mind if there is sufficient interest. I intend to post low-resolution versions of my images on the Wikimedia Commons, using the Creative Commons Attribution License.
  If you are very eager to obtain a high-quality poster print or a high-resolution image for creating such a print, feel free to contact me. I do not intend to try and make money of these images myself, but may ask you to make a donation to the Liverpool mathematics department.
• Q: You say in the slide show that your images are not art because of your intention when creating them. Do you think the artist's intention is necessary for a work to be art? Do you think mathematical images cannot be art?
  A: I am a mathematician and not an art critic / philosopher / expert, so I do not presume to be able to make a clear definition of art. When I look at my own images, I first and foremost see a mathematical object, and that was also my intention in creating them. Therefore, when I look at them, I do not see a work of art. This is not to say that I might not consider other images with connections to mathematics to be art. In fact, my images might be considered art by other observers; if so, I am very pleased!