Tuesday Tea / Counting with Sol LeWitt: All (!) Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes

Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) made several artworks whose titles contain the phrase “three-part variations on three different kinds of cubes.” To a mathematician, these pieces suggest a counting problem: How many variations are there? In this talk, Robert Bosch (OC 1985), James F. Clark Professor of Mathematics, and Ilana McNamara (OC 2024) will discuss the processes and methodologies that mathematicians use to tackle such problems, and they will share a “new” 57th variation.