I am a big fan of Ray and Charles Eames. In the world of design they were perhaps the ultimate power couple, originating one ingenious idea after another. The Eames Chair has deservedly become an icon of modernist design.
Similarly, their 1961 interactive museum exhibit Mathematica: A World of Numbers … and Beyond is the best advertisement for the sheer delight of mathematics this side of Vi Hart’s videos — and a very high bar for the Museum of Mathematics to strive for as it continues to mature.
The there is one thing for which they unfairly get too much credit. Just today a colleague referred to their iconic work Powers of 10, a lovely short film that first zooms out from human scale to the universe, and then zooms in to the atomic world (and which was subsequently released as the book “Powers of Ten” by Philip and Phylis Morrison).
I say they get too much credit because the entire concept for this film was borrowed from Cosmic View, a 1957 illustrated essay by Kees Boeke.
Not surprisingly Boeke was a pioneer in many other ways. For one thing, he originated the concept of a Sociocracy in education. You could look it up.
From looking up Sociocracy it seems it dates back to to Comte in C19.
Boeke expanded the concept.
Or perhaps that’s what you wanted people to discover. Diabolically clever!
I actually meant to write “Sociocracy in education”, which even today is a concept worth thinking about. The last two words got inadvertently left off in an edit.
I’ve put them back because the focus on education is important. I wish I were as diabolically clever as you thought. 🙂
And I’m glad you looked it up!!