Sentences with phrase «from imaginary numbers»

From imaginary numbers to gyroscopic monorails, we pick out some of the most improbable ideas to have hit the big time

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Our brains are built to intuitively grasp natural numbers, we need education to learn about zero and the rest, our brains are built to seek refuge from the unexplainable, the unknown holds some danger, so the brain has mechanisms of inventing imaginary supernatural creatures to help make sense of things that are beyond our knowledge and understanding.

They exasperated their 16th - century discoverer, but imaginary numbers have given us everything from quantum mechanics to portable music

People who process numbers spatially do this using an imaginary horizontal line along which the numbers are arranged from low to high, left to right.

The 2D Mandelbrot set is a set of points in the complex plane, a mathematical space where ordinary numbers run from «east» to «west» and «imaginary» numbers, based on the square root of -1, run from «south» to «north».

Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.

FRANK STELLA b. 1936 1936 Malden, Massachusetts, USA (American) Title: East Euralia, from: Imaginary Places, 1995 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Screenprint and Litho...

The former — an abstract collection of images created by inputting a series of numbers corresponding to frequencies, amplitudes, and color values into a custom - designed program — plays with the role technology plays in photographic representation; the latter, staged scenes from a imaginary emergency situation of power loss in New York City, explores what happens to human emotions in such scenarios.

Wilke has also participated in a large number of significant group exhibitions including the forthcoming exhibition Virginia Woolf: an exhibition based on her writing, Tate St Ives (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 - 1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Body Talk, Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2017); Feminist Avant - Garde of the 1970s, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2017), travelling to Stavanger Art Museum, Norway and The Brno House of Arts, Brno (2018); I Remember Not Remembering, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017); Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (2016); Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2013); Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary (2013); Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012); Naked Before the Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum (2012); The Body as Protest, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2012); Ourselves, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York and elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).

He has held numerous solo institutional exhibitions around the world, including Florida Living at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017), TIME, Hernan Bas: a queer and curious cabinet at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2013), The Other Side at the Kunstverein Hannover (2012), Hernan Bas: works from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2007) and Brooklyn Museum of Art (2009), and has been included in a number of important group exhibitions, including A Sum of its Parts, at Polk Museum of Art (2016), Tracing Shadows, at PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art (2015), Aquatopia, The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, at Nottingham Contemporary and Tate St. Ives (2013), Nightfall, MODEM Centre for Contemporary Art, Hungary, travelling to Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2012), Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011), Busan Biennale, Korea (2008), Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum (2007), Ideal Worlds - New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2005), Whitney Biennial (2004), and The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2002).

Céline Condorelli is an artist who works with architecture, combining a number of approaches from developing structures for «supporting» (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites, resulting in projects merging installation, exhibition, politics, fiction, display, public space, sound, writing, and whatever else feels urgent at the time.

«The Towering Inferno: The Babel Trilogy,» University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 21, 2014 — January 30, 2014; catalogue «Codex,» CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, January 23 — March 29, 2014 «Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor,» Gallery Met, The Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY, January 15 — May 10, 2014 2013 «Art and Its Discontents,» University of California Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, October 19 — December 13, 2013 «TACET,» Museum of Fine Art Dole, Dole France, June 22 — Spetember 8, 2013 «Imitation of Christ,» The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May 18 - August 18, 2013 «The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside,» Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, April 26 — July 1, 2013 «Art Geneve,» Suisse Romande, Geneva, Switzerland, January 31 - March 3, 2013 «Set Pieces,» Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy, February 2013 «The Circle Walked Casually,» Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany, November 28, 2013 — March 2, 2014 2012 «Letters From Los Angeles,» Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, November 17 — December 22, «Tracing the Century: Drawing from the Tate Collection,» Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, November 16 — January 20, 2013 «This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s,» Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL, February 11 — June 3, 2012; travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 30 — September 30, 2012; travels to Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA, October 2012 — January 2013 «In Numbers,» Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, January 25 — March 18, 2012 «Self - portraits,» Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, September 14, 2012 - January 13, 2013 «Behold America!&raFrom Los Angeles,» Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, November 17 — December 22, «Tracing the Century: Drawing from the Tate Collection,» Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, November 16 — January 20, 2013 «This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s,» Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL, February 11 — June 3, 2012; travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 30 — September 30, 2012; travels to Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA, October 2012 — January 2013 «In Numbers,» Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, January 25 — March 18, 2012 «Self - portraits,» Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, September 14, 2012 - January 13, 2013 «Behold America!&rafrom the Tate Collection,» Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, November 16 — January 20, 2013 «This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s,» Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL, February 11 — June 3, 2012; travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 30 — September 30, 2012; travels to Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA, October 2012 — January 2013 «In Numbers,» Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, January 25 — March 18, 2012 «Self - portraits,» Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, September 14, 2012 - January 13, 2013 «Behold America!»

Most Hudson River School paintings were based on plein - air drawings that were later worked up in the artist's studio, and - while they included some details of actual places - usually consisted of composite scenes taken from a number of real and imaginary locations.

Celine Condorelli works with art and architecture, combining a number of approaches from developing structures for «supporting» (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites, resulting in projects merging exhibitions, politics, fiction, display, public space, sound, writing, and whatever else feels urgent at the time.