The Most Expensive Art in the World
Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Evening” has been a customer favourite at MoMA because it first appeared in our Van Gogh retrospective in 1935 after which was acquired in 1939. To turn into acquainted with the guts and thoughts of its maker, there is no such thing as a higher supply than his letters. These … Read more
Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-unexpected-math-behind-van-gogh-s-starry-night-natalya-st-clair Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to … Read more