Bulent Atalay

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Bulent Atalay is a physicist, artist, and author of the best selling book, Math and the Mona Lisa: the Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci, initially published in English by Smithsonian Books (2004), and subsequently in numerous foreign languages, including Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian, etc. He is also the author (or coauthor) of numerous technical articles in theoretical physics, and the author and artist of a pair of books of lithographs, Oxford and the English Countryside, and The Lands of Washington. His books of lithographs can be found in the White House, Buckingham Palace and the Smithsonian. A theoretical physicist, he is a professor at the University of Mary Washington, an adjunct professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.