John Sharp is Visiting Fellow at LKL.

His careers have included analytical chemistry and technical authoring software and hardware manuals. He also taught geometry and art in adult education around London, primarily at the City Lit in Holborn.

He has written widely on mathematics and art and spoken at conferences on the subject.

He is well known for his Sliceform paper sculptures and his books on the subject have been taken up many other people as a Google search on the web shows.

With Dr Phillip Kent he coordinates LKL's monthly Maths-Art seminar.
He was a local organiser in 2006 for the international conference, Bridges London 2006: Mathematical connections in art, music and science, which took place at the Institute of Education. See www.bridgesmathart.org.

Publication details

Editor of Infinity, Tarquin Publications recreational mathematics magazine
Associate Editor of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

Books etc

'Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle'
Published in 2006 by the Architectural Association with contributions by George L Legendre, John Sharp and Chris Wise.

Sliceforms: Mathematical models from paper sections
Tarquin Publications

Surfaces: Explorations with Sliceforms
Tarquin Publications

Numerous teaching articles in Mathematics Teaching, Micromath, Mathematical Gazette, Mathematics in School, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology,and For the Learning of Mathematics.