Publication · 2017Mathematics & Structure
Playing in the Lux Dimension
Bridges Conference
A workshop paper on constructing polyhedra, molecular models and dynamic linkages with Lux.
WRITING / PUBLICATIONS / NOTEBOOKS
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Published essays, mathematics-and-art papers, talks, and a shelf of developing manuscripts. The library can grow alongside a future Substack.
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Publication · 2019Mathematics & Structure
Exploring Kaleidocycles with LUX
Bridges Conference
With Matias Kaukolinna, Alexey Ivchenko and Kristóf Fenyvesi; hands-on exploration of moving geometric linkages.
Publication · 2023Art & Ideas
I Went into the Forest Looking for Meaning
NCTM / Mathematics Teacher: Learning & Teaching PK–12
A personal account of an artist’s years studying patterns in a Maine forest and the emergence of Y-Theory.
Talk · 2020Education & Play
Teaching in the Time of COVID
University of Jyväskylä / UNESCO Chairs conference
Participation in an international conversation on creativity, structures and education during disruption.
Essay · 2024Mathematics & Structure
The Anti-Prism: The Prism’s Twisted Sister
A reflection on how overlooked forms can reveal structural and educational possibilities.
FROM THE MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE
Read from the notebooks.
Essays, book chapters, and literary work from Mike’s archive. These texts retain the author’s wording; drafts and selections are identified individually.
Archival reflection
I Went into the Forest Looking for Meaning
A short reflection on the Maine woods, a thought experiment, and the path from drawing to mathematical patterns.
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Fiat Lux · Draft chapter 14
Sculpting by Numbers: Michelangelo and the Geometry of Genius
Art, proportion, model-making, and the relationship between inspiration and precision.
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Fiat Lux · Draft chapter 32
The Linkages: Mechanical Intelligence in Motion
Four-bar and six-bar mechanisms, treadles, governors, and the structures that guide motion.
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Fiat Lux · Draft chapter 34
Biomimetics: Learning the Wisdom of Nature
A manuscript chapter about observing living systems and learning from their forms, functions, and strategies.
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Manuscript selections · 2025
The Y Codex: Opening Selections
The dedication, preface, and “Primordial Seeds” from the opening folio of The Y Codex.
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Manuscript excerpt
The Hidden Layer: Prologue
Making, family memory, and the knowledge passed through hands, materials, and observation.
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Fiction · Draft synopsis
Mars Is for Misfits: Trilogy Synopsis
Children, living worlds, and a science-fiction trilogy about domination, symbiosis, and a changing solar system.
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THE WORKING SHELF
Unfinished, on purpose.
Ideas, manuscripts and educational materials in development. These are not presented as published articles or validated scientific results.
2026 · Educational frameworkIn development
Structure Before Symbols: Creating Mathematical Origin Stories
The emerging Structure Smart approach to designed rediscovery: Build → Break → Ask → Fix → Name.
Work in development
2026 · Curriculum developmentIn development
Structure Smart Teacher’s Primer
A teacher-facing introduction to structural prediction, physical models and classroom inquiry.
Work in development
1990s–present · Independent inquiryIn development
Y-Theory notes and drawings
A long-running exploration of growth patterns, form, recursion and attempts to describe nature’s structural grammar.
Personal research, not peer-reviewed science
In development · Creative manuscriptIn development
The Y Codex / Carlo Pittore
A literary and visual space for an anguished, comic artistic alter ego and reflections on beauty, culture and making.
Unpublished writing
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