Martin Demaine
Martin L. (Marty) Demaine (born 1942[1]) is an artist and mathematician, the Angelika and Barton Weller artist in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Demaine attended Medford High School in Medford, Massachusetts.[3] After studying glassblowing in England, he began his artistic career by blowing art glass in New Brunswick in the early 1970s.[4] The Demaine Studio, located in Miramichi Bay and later at Opus Village in Mactaquac, was the first one-man glass studio in Canada,[5] part of the international studio glass movement. Demaine's pieces from this period are represented in the permanent collections of half a dozen major museums[6] including the Canadian Museum of Civilization[7] and the National Gallery of Canada. Since joining MIT, Demaine has begun blowing glass again, as an instructor at the MIT Glass Lab;[8] his newer work features innovative glassblowing techniques intended as a puzzle to his fellow glassblowers.[4][9]
Martin Demaine is the father of MIT Computer Science professor and MacArthur Fellow Erik Demaine; in 1987 (when Erik was six) they together founded the Erik and Dad Puzzle Company which distributed puzzles throughout Canada.[10] Erik was home-schooled by Martin, and although Martin never received any higher degree than his high school diploma, his home-schooling catapulted Erik to a B.S. at age 14 and a Ph.D. and MIT professorship at age 20,[3][11] making him the youngest professor ever hired by MIT.[12] The two Demaines continue to work closely together and have many joint works of both mathematics and art,[13] including three pieces of mathematical origami in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York;[14] their joint mathematical works focus primarily on the mathematics of folding and unfolding objects out of flat materials such as paper and on the computational complexity of games and puzzles.[9][12] Martin and Erik are also featured in the movie Between the Folds, a documentary on modern origami.
Demaine is a citizen of both Canada and the United States.[6]
References
- ↑ Author information in National Library of Australia catalog entry for A lifetime of puzzles : a collection of puzzles in honor of Martin Gardner's 90th birthday (A K Peters, 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-245-8), edited by Demaine et al.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Fluency", past exhibitions, Andrew and Laura McCain Art Gallery, Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada, retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. Jon Sawyer was an apprentice of Demaine at Mactaquac beginning in 1977.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Curriculum vitae from Demaine's web site.
- ↑ Glass and glass-making in Canada - Inspirational glass. Canadian Museum of Civilization. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ↑ The MIT Glass Lab: Martin Demaine.
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- ↑ Father and son share love of art, computer science, MIT Tech Talk, October 8, 2003.
- ↑ Curved Origami Sculpture, from the web site of Erik Demaine. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
