Magazines
Magazines
April 3 1992 -- article on the Geometry Center and in particular on the Computational Crystal Growers Workshop that I organized there. Photo and quotes. ("Mathematicians Join the Computer Revolution," "Crystal Growers Compute Together")
Scientific American:
July 1976 -- article on The Geometry of Soap Bubbles, by me and Fred Almgren
October 1993 -- article on The Death of Proof (which I don't at all agree with), by
November 1993 -- photo and short blurb in article about women in science, by
Science News:
1976? -- article on soap bubbles and films, by Lynn Steen
1987? -- article on my work in metallurgy, by Ivars Peterson
Dec. 23, 1989 -- article on The Color of Geometry, by Ivars Peterson -- about computer graphics and The Geometry Center; has a quote from me.
The Scientist:
March 1993 -- long article on me and my work on soap films, by Robert Kanigel
Horizons (Mathematical Association of America):
Sept 1994 -- reprint of Kanigel article plus photos
What's New in Mathematics (American Mathematical Society):
1993 -- article primarily on work of Andy Roosen and Robert Almgren, but with photo and some info on me
Cray Channels:
Fall 1988 -- short article on my work; picture of a surface I computed.
Books
Mathematical Tourist, by Ivars Peterson
Islands of Truth, by Ivars Peterson
Strange Attractors, by Rebecca Goldstein, is a book of short stories; in one of them, The Geometry of Soap Bubbles and Impossible Love, the heroine proves my theorem.