Buckeyballs and Bubbles - This quilt turned out to be a tribute to Richard Smalley,
a professor who discovered the existence of the Buckeyball in soot.  For centuries
it was thought that the only two pure forms of carbon were hard sparkling diamonds
and dull, slipery graphite.  In l985, Smalley's team announce a third pure form of
carbon C-60.  The Buckeyball was named after Buckminster Fuller, the inventor
of the geodesic dome.  The symmetry in the Buckeyball lends itself to applications
in drug design, chemical sponges,miniature circuits, lubricants, catalysts, chemical
probles in a scanning-fprce microscope, batteries, molecular sieves, and possible
use in photo copiers.





Mathematical Harmoney - Music, like mathematics, has an abstract notation that
is used to represent abstract structures.  Like mathematics, the notation has
developed over the centuries.  "Military Polonaise" by Chopin can be found
in the background of this quilt.  The four major instrument groups are represented
by the violin, the b-flat clarinet, the piano, and the double french horn.  The Greek mathematician Pythagoras (c. 569 B.C.E. - c. 507 B.C.E.) is credited with discovering
the harmonic progression in the notes of the music scale by finding the musical
intervals and the pitch of the notes corresponding to the relative length of vibrating strings.  He discovered that if a string was plucked in a 1:2 ratio, an octave is obtained.  Similarly, a fifth is obtained from a 2:3 ratio, and a fourth by a 3:4 ratio.