textbook

This textbook was a dream come true—the culmination of nearly a decade of research into the connections between perspective drawing and projective geometry. Co-authored with Annalisa Crannell and Marc Frantz, the project grew from a curiosity that began years earlier, when I happened to take an upper-level course in projective geometry alongside an art course on perspective drawing. I sensed that there might be deeper links between the two but didn’t explore them seriously until later, as a professor. Collaborating with my co-authors, we connected Desargues’ theorem to shadows and cross ratios to sidewalk tiles, sharing our discoveries through papers, classroom experiments, and museum visits with students. An NSF-DUE grant eventually supported the writing of the book, and, for the icing on the cake, Princeton University Press let me illustrate the cover. This is a IBL workbook-style textbook with perforated pages that can be ripped out and laid flat to make drawing with a ruler easier. An instructor’s manual is available upon request.

photos from geometry class