Sophia Mai
University Paris-Est Créteil, France
Sophia Mai is a mathematician from France who works on mathematical analysis, as a first-year Master's student with a growing interest in its applications to other sciences.
the artwork
La beleco savos la mondon
Esperanto - Beauty will save the world - 2026 - digital
audio commentary
Dostoevsky wrote that beauty will save the world. Look at this beauty, at the center. Please note, this is not a mandala. These are the 240 roots of the group E8, one of the most symmetric and intricate objects in all of mathematics. In its E8 × E8 heteroic version, string theory calls upon this group in an attempt to bridge the two realms of physics that everything sets apart: the quantum world of the infinitely small and general relativity’s spacetime and gravity. The title is in Esperanto, a language born to ease communication between different tongues.
Sophia Mai
The change from a fragmented, divided understanding of the universe toward its dreamed unification
mathematics in Russian culture
Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian pioneer of abstract art, devoted his 1926 painting “Several Circles” to a single, quietly mysterious shape: the circle. He was fascinated by a form at once utterly simple and endlessly complex. For him the circle was “the synthesis of the greatest oppositions” — uniting the concentric and the eccentric, stillness and motion, the earthly and the cosmic. On his dark canvas, circles of every size and colour float and overlap, and geometry becomes pure feeling.
Sophia Mai
