About

Dr. Fumiko Futamura is Professor of Mathematics and holder of the John H. Duncan Chair at Southwestern University. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2007 and B.A. from the University of Louisville in 2002. She spends much of her free time creating artwork primarily in charcoal, chalk pastel pencils, oils and crochet, as well as exploring the wealth of connections between mathematics and art. She shares her this interdisciplinary passion with her students in classes like Geometry and Explorations in Mathematics, empowering and engaging them through hands-on activities and active learning, as well as with the public through lectures and workshops at venues such as the Japan America Society of Greater Austin, the Blanton Museum of Art, NerdNite, the Phi Beta Kappa honors society and the Thinkery. She is the author of a TED-Ed video, The Mathematics of Sidewalk Illusions and the co-author of the inquiry-based learning textbook Perspective and Projective Geometry. Her upcoming book, a general audience book of essays on art and perspective will be published by Princeton University Press.

email: futamurf at southwestern dot edu

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