[The Canadian mathematician James] Stewart was...an unlikely architectural trailblazer. He devoted many years of his life, and much of his income, to building his dream home in an upmarket Toronto neighbourhood. Integral House – named after the 'integral', a concept in calculus – is a shrine to calculus, the mathematics of flowing change. Stewart died last December, aged 73, and Integral House is now for sale at £11.4m [approx. $17.4 million] — The Guardian
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Like Wittgenstein doing an Aalto. Wait, Wittgenstein was on a Loos, this is Stewart on Aalto. Tight onesies both.
Cost £15 million to build, asking £11.4.
Not a single operable window in the place.
I do like the wall hanging bench in the entry, though.
Calling somebody a calculus rock star is kind of like scene in Rushmore where Max solves the hardest geometry problem in the world....textbook author, hardly a notable mathematician. Sunk his fortune in a $5000/sf curvy house - somebody is going to buy and remodel it to remove all those curves.
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