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Lizzie née Acid Lich (in perpetual number mode)
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Artist & math nerd. She/her. Actually autistic, epileptic Aspiring polyglot: 🇹🇭🇨🇳🇱🇦🇰🇭🇯🇵🇫🇷🇩🇪 I used to be a tattooer until I took an arrow to the knee linktr.ee/Acid_Lich?utm_source=linkt
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Some great moments in graphic design via math books

A dank early edition of Convex Polytopes by Branko Grünbaum. Lettering is sort of bubble soft italicized curvy serif and there are an assortment of convex polytopes (a sort of multidimensional polygon). Mustard with yellow and white
A photo of On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Gödel, Dover edition. Nice block lettering framed by a reflected motif of a pyramid of dots of decreasing size. Black background, dots are pale blue. Lettering & name are in yellow and orange. Notably this is being perused in a hot tub.
A math book called complex analytic varieties by hassler (what a name!) Whitney. Black background, soft robin blue lettering whose shape is telling me this book is not only gonna have math but almost certainly 1960s sitcom style bawdy shenanigans
The one and only tilings and patterns by Branko Grünbaum & G.C Shephard. Dover 2ndedition, yellow background with an assortment of tilings framing the block San serif red title. This is taken at PDX and one can see a fantastic abstract deco carpet behind the book. Both this one and Gödel have been camping with me
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Yrival-elf.bsky.social

I love flipping to random pages in the Tilings and Patterns book so much! It's so good

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HThalaylah.bsky.social

I like the Complex Analytic Varieties.

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dynamoe.bsky.social

It's definitely hand-lettered since there's so much variation in the As and Es, but there's enough of a sample here that you COULD make a typeface of it should you want to. (The gray letters are ones I made from parts of the other letters.)

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I'll take one of each thanks

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Cisolinearchip.bsky.social

Electrical engineering so not strictly math, but I found this beauty in a library giveaway pile years ago and have had it displayed on a shelf ever since

A black, red, and white hardcover book from 1957 titled "Latest Instruments for Servicing Radio-Television" with really striking cover illustration
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AWmockwooloo.bsky.social

Shout out to Oliver Byrne's 1847 colour edition of the Elements of Euclid, which is just beautiful.

Title page of Byrne's Elements of Euclids, surrounded by geometric diagrams made of blocks of colour. The whole thing looks like a Mondrian print or something.
A page from the book, showing the first part of a proof being worked through with the colourful geometric diagrams.
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Abetapersei.bsky.social

Clocked the godel as a dover edition just from the typeface lol

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WHsymbo1ics.bsky.social

Wonderful, I love posts like this, keep them coming!!

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We have lost so much. I own like 30 books that look like this, with different titles and thicknesses:

Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics "Categories for the Working Mathematician" by Saunders Mac Lane.
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KLliakos.bsky.social

That complex analytic font is 10/10

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Lizzie née Acid Lich (in perpetual number mode)
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Artist & math nerd. She/her. Actually autistic, epileptic Aspiring polyglot: 🇹🇭🇨🇳🇱🇦🇰🇭🇯🇵🇫🇷🇩🇪 I used to be a tattooer until I took an arrow to the knee linktr.ee/Acid_Lich?utm_source=linkt
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