Beautiful math and physics blackboards

Greg Bernhardt · Aug 8, 2013

Interesting how chalk, blackboards and equations can look so neat! Post your's if you have some favorites!

Chalk drawing on a dark blackboard, densely covered with handwritten equations and diagrams in white and orange, including the word FUSION in a boxed diagram, a spiral, and nested geometric figures.

Black chalkboard covered in white chalk equations and diagrams, with smudged erased areas and a dark wiped band across the lower middle; many formulas are too faint to read.

Dark blackboard covered in chalk equations and diagrams, partly obscured by smudged chalk streaks and erasure marks, with a rectangular grid diagram near the top.

$A man in a white shirt and dark trousers writes with chalk on a large black chalkboard covered in handwritten equations, graphs, geometric diagrams and molecular structures.$

Photo of a dense chalkboard covered in handwritten mathematical equations, including vector and tensor expressions, derivatives, a circle diagram and a few partial labels.

Greg Bernhardt · Aug 8, 2013

Here are a few more that I like

Dark green chalkboard in a black frame, filled with white and coloured chalk formulas and diagrams, set against a grey wall covered in faint equations and a grey floor.

$Man in a white shirt, dark tie and glasses stands with arms folded in front of a chalkboard covered in handwritten quantum mechanics equations, including bra-ket notation, summations and fractions.$

$Blackboard densely covered in handwritten mathematics and physics equations, including integrals, derivatives, wave graphs, a matrix, and an ellipse diagram, in white chalk on black.$

Greg Bernhardt · Aug 8, 2013

More here

Chalk drawing on a blackboard of a human heart and major vessels, labelled in colour: Vein, Artery (Away), Vena Cava, Pulmonary Semilunar, Pulmonary Artery, Alveoli, Diaphragm, Pulmonary Vein, Aortic Semilunar, Tricuspid Valve, Bicuspid Valve, Atrium, Ventricle, Right, Left.

Smiling older man in a dark jacket standing in front of a chalkboard covered with handwritten equations, diagrams and notes, including a sketched face with glasses and molecular ring structures.

An older man in a dark beret and suit stands smiling in front of a green chalkboard covered with handwritten equations, diagrams and notes.

Black-and-white painting of a man in a light shirt and trousers standing with his back to the viewer, facing a corner covered floor to ceiling with rows of white handwritten numbers on a dark board.

Lecture hall with students seated in tiered rows, facing a man in a dark suit standing before a large chalkboard densely covered with handwritten equations, diagrams and graphs.

drizzle · Aug 8, 2013

How in the world did that guy manage to fill the board in that last pic??

DavidSnider · Aug 8, 2013

Gad said:

How in the world did that guy manage to fill the board in that last pic??

It's from a movie called "A Serious Man"

berkeman · Aug 8, 2013

Wow!

LOL mixing in the anatomy blackboard, Greg.

Office_Shredder · Aug 8, 2013

The third post contains a blackboard which is also in the second post

Greg Bernhardt · Aug 9, 2013

Here is a few with Einstein!

Black-and-white photo of a man with a mustache standing before a crowded blackboard covered in equations and diagrams, with an audience of seated listeners in the foreground.

Two men in suits stand in front of a chalkboard covered with handwritten equations; the board includes the words 'Maximum' and 'Final State'.

Black-and-white photo of a man in a dark suit standing beside a chalkboard covered with handwritten equations and tensor-style formulas, with a light backdrop behind.

Benn · Aug 9, 2013

http://mathematics.gulfcoast.edu/mathprojects/andrew5.jpg

We can't forget this one

Curious3141 · Aug 9, 2013

Benn said:

http://mathematics.gulfcoast.edu/mathprojects/andrew5.jpg

We can't forget this one

I love that pic of Wiles.

davenn · Aug 14, 2013

OK ... sorry I couldn't resist...

Man seated in a chair outdoors beside a whiteboard covered in handwritten equations and diagrams of blue and black grid-like figures, holding a red laptop and pulling a funny face.

and

Characters Penny and Sheldon in front of Saltzberg's first white board about quark decay

Whiteboard with handwritten quark decay notes: t to W+ b branching ratio formula, Feynman diagrams, FCNC processes, and a CKM matrix, beside a woman and a man in a TV set.

both credits to: courtesy of Warner Bros

cheers
Dave

George Jones · Aug 15, 2013

For some reason, I kind of like

George Jones said:

Eleven years ago.

Note, this was first posted years ago, so the "eleven years ago" is no longer true :cry:

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Convix · Oct 11, 2017

Green chalkboard densely covered with overlapping handwritten physics equations and diagrams in white, yellow, pink and lavender chalk, including partial derivatives, a line element ds, and the word Teflon with the formula CF2CF.

Blackboards with mathematics or physics formulae can be considered many times as art pieces.
You can often find blackboards which are amazing and inspiring from an artistic point of view if you look both at the conceptual content the teacher put in them and at the graphical execution.
A unique feature of a blackboard drawing is its immediacy, meaning that it’s usually created as the thought process and its explanation unfold.

I like so much these blackboards (or whiteboards or flipcharts) with scientific content.

If you too like this kind of drawings take pics and share images or videos of blackboards, wherever you can find them.
Most importantly, add a comment on why you like this particular blackboard drawing and which emotions it provokes in you.
Please put in the comment also a short description of the content, the situation in which it was created (e.g. lesson or meeting or whatever), its author, place and date.

I post a blackboard (courtesy by Alejandro Guijarro) taken at a Quantum Physics Department. You see a substrate of physics formulae and over many layers of different content. The result is amazing for me.

Share and comment your blackboards !

Convix · Oct 15, 2017

A tribute to the iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani. She was considered a real genius and one of the best contemporary mathematicians.
I extracted some images from videos of lectures she held at various Universities and events in the States in the last years.
Look at the beauty of these blackboards.
I like to share your comments on them.

Blackboard with handwritten notes: 'Question' heading, X ∈ Teich(Sg), P random decomposition on Sg, Mod(P), a genus-two surface sketch, sets of lengths {ℓg,p(x) ∈ L}, and 'What is the asymptotics of length distributions of random pants decomposition?', with 'Thm 2' and 'limiting distribution' notes.

Photo of a lecture blackboard with handwritten math: a set-builder expression for lengths of geodesics, a 'Idea' note, the Pants decomposition sketch, and a woman in a yellow top seated at lower left.

Blackboard lecture slide titled 'Dynamics on moduli space of (complex) curves/(hyp) surfaces (I)', with a woman in a green top gesturing toward a sketch of nested curves labelled with sums and numbers.

Greg Bernhardt · Mar 25, 2020

Several neat ones here
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/mathematicians-chalkboards-by-jessica-wynne/

Beautiful math and physics blackboards

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