Hi Ross,

Welcome aboard.  Your unique background and interests remind me of Dr Peter
Taylor, a great mathematician and educator at Queens U in Canada.  Peter
co-teaches a fabulous course on Math and Poetry, which I had the distinct
pleasure of attending while I did my doctoral studies at queens.

Others may also be interested in one of his lectures on this topic:

The 10th MacClement Lecture Mathematics and Poetry Queen's University,
Faculty of Education Peter Taylor Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics March
7, 1995

http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/pdf/MacClement.pdf

best, Gail

PS: many thanks on your work on the website!


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Subject: Re: Nomination of Ross Churchley to AACORN

My hearty second...he has done a magnificient job 
on the website....and for one with an interest in 
theoretical physics he ceratinly has the eye of 
the artist.....I say, with appreciation and 
anticipation of grand things to come. YEA!

Chris Poulson





>Dear All,
>
>I'd like to nominate one of our hard working, 
>self sacrificing, and generally super all 
>rounder webmasters to Aacorn--17 year old Ross 
>Churchley, John's son. I'm not sure how many of 
>you know it, but Ross has provided much of the 
>technical know-how and programming for our 
>website. He's also done a lot with the graphic 
>design and the overall organizational design. 
>Without Ross' efforts, there would be a mere 
>shadow of a site (or probably none at all).
>
>Here is a little bit of a bio that Ross sent me 
>(which I think is really wonderful):
>
>"I am an a student of theoretical physics and I 
>hope to one day be a researcher and professor in 
>the subject. I am also an amateur digital 
>photographer, graphics and web designer, and a 
>tinkerer in general. This year I am attending 
>high school in Kamloops as well as some 
>university courses part-time at Thompson Rivers 
>University.
>My scientific experience is largely aesthetic: 
>to me, the math of physics is just another art 
>form, a way of expressing and exploring the 
>beauty of the universe. One of my best examples 
>of physics as an art is that of mixing coloured 
>liquids in a glass jar. The artist might take a 
>deep look the jar and be incredibly moved by the 
>swirls and colours of the mingling waters; he or 
>she would want to express this feeling, and try 
>to capture the colours and light in a painting, 
>perhaps, or the shape and movement of the 
>liquids in a form of dance. In the same way, the 
>physicist looks at the jar and tries to express 
>the beauty in his or her own way, trying to 
>capture the complexity of the fluids in a 
>similar cascade of equations, while at the same 
>time expressing its underlying simplicity. 
>Leaves blowing in the wind, the sight of the 
>northern lights on a dark night... almost every 
>phenomena in the universe is an aesthetic 
>experience waiting to happen to a scientist, 
>like it is with any other artist.
>
>Perhaps these two viewpoints, art and science, 
>could together also make contributions to the 
>study of organizations and of the phenomena of 
>human interaction. Like the liquids in the jar, 
>people and relationships between people have 
>many different facets, and many different angles 
>from which they can be viewed. The evolution of 
>both systems, jar and organization, are nearly 
>impossible to predict beforehand, but with the 
>help of both creative realms, art and science, 
>they can be interpreted and explored."
>