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Danko Arlington and an innovative team cast a mathematical monument.
BY DENISE KAPEL, SENIOR EDITOR
and bronze sand castings, to create a towering sculpture with infi nite lines. T e castings for the outer shape of the piece were produced without pattern tooling, and the fi nal assembly weighs more than 20,000 lbs. T e total weight of the sculpture is approximately 65 tons. Philanthropists James and Marilyn Simons
commissioned Ferguson to create the outdoor centerpiece for the new Simons Center for Ge- ometry and Physics at Sony Brook University, Long Island, N.Y. According to John Morgan, founding director, the goal of the center is to bring together mathematicians—in particu- lar, geometers and theoretical physicists—to inform and learn from each other, and to work on problems of common interest with the
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Dr. Ferguson examines his Umbilic Torus.
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For a slideshow of images showing the creation of the sculpture, go to
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or more than two years, Dr. Helaman Ferguson, PhD, a mathematician and sculptor, worked with Danko Arling- ton Inc., a Baltimore job shop special- izing in aluminum
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