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Danko Arlington and an innovative team cast a mathematical monument. BY DENISE KAPEL, SENIOR EDITOR
or more than two years, Dr. Helaman Ferguson, PhD, a mathematician who
specializes in stone and bronze sculp- tures, worked with Danko Arlington Inc., a Baltimore job shop specializing in aluminum and bronze sand cast- ings, to create a towering sculpture with infinite lines. Te castings for the outer shape of the piece were pro- duced without pattern tooling, and the final assembly weighs more than 20,000 lbs. Te total weight of the sculpture is approximately 65 tons. Philanthropists James and Mari-
lyn Simons commissioned Ferguson to create the outdoor centerpiece for the new Simons Center for Geom- etry and Physics at Sony Brook Uni- versity, Long Island, N.Y. According to John Morgan, founding director, the goal of the center is to bring together mathematicians—in particular, geometers and theoretical
Dr. Ferguson examines his Umbilic Torus. 30 | MODERN CASTING May 2013
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