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I, Helaman Ferguson, Sculptor, math Ph.D., carved this seven ton two billion year old quartz diorite “Invisible Handshake” from South Africa out of a 24 ton....

Helaman Ferguson

American mathematician

Helaman Ferguson
Born	1940 Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson (born 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist.

He is also well known for his development of the PSLQ algorithm, an integer relation detection algorithm.

Category: 3D & Sculpture.

This article covers some of my thinking while developing The Eightfold Way and some of the physical processes I used in creating it.

I, Helaman Ferguson, Sculptor, math Ph.D., carved this seven ton two billion year old quartz diorite “Invisible Handshake” from South Africa out of a 24 ton.

In this chapter, we explore the interconnection of mathematics and art.

From the first soft stone sculpture I made under the guidance of Helaman Ferguson, I have been inspired to make torus knots by carving and.

Early life and education

Ferguson's mother died when he was about three and his father went off to serve in the Second World War. He was adopted by an Irish immigrant and raised in New York. He learned to work with his hands in an old-world style with earthen materials from his adoptive father who was a carpenter and stonemason by trade.

An art-inclined math teacher in high school helped him develop his dual interests in math and art.

Ferguson is a graduate of Hamilton College, a liberal arts school in New York. In 1971, he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Washington.^[1]

Work

In 1977, Ferg