For most of us the word 'art' is a synonym of painting, sculpture and sometimes calligraphy. We
consider also music as a form of art. For an average person art has nothing in common with
mathematics or even geometry. However, if we look into the textbooks of history then we will find
that ancient Greeks considered art and mathematics as tightly connected disciplines. There were
many artists who have been inspired by mathematics and studied mathematics as a mean of
complementing their works. The Greek sculptor Polykleitos recommended a series of mathematical
proportions for carving the ideal male nude. Renaissance painters turned to mathematics and many
of them became accomplished mathematicians themselves. We can find mathematics in creations
of the middle century Islamic artists as well as in works of Gothic masons.