Intersections: Henry Moore and Stringed Surfaces
From 5 April to 20 June 2012
The Royal Society, London

The exhibition is a partnership between the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Science Museum and the Royal Society and explores the inspirational encounter with the nineteenth century mathematical stringed surfaces of Théodore Olivier and their influence on the work of the young Henry Moore.

A torus with a torus knot formed of golden beads wrapped around.
The torus is the only compact
two-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold.
Animation copyright Nicholas Mee.

A projection of a six-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold.
The quintic hypersurface in complex projective four-space.
Animation copyright Nicholas Mee.

A projection of a four-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold
known as a K3 surface.
Animation copyright Nicholas Mee.