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Multiplying — Description
Oils on canvas
14 x 11"
1979

This painting was inspired by passages in Ayn Rand's book "Atlas Shrugged". Here are the quotes from that book:

"She felt the same emotion in school, in classes of mathematics, the only lessons she liked. She felt the excitement of solving problems, the insolent delight of taking up a challenge and disposing of it without effort, the eagerness to meet another, harder test. She felt, at the same time, a growing respect for the adversary, for a science that was so clean, so strict, so luminously rational. Studying mathematics, she felt, quite simply and at once: 'How great that men have done this' and 'How wonderful that I'm so good at it.' She felt, at the same time, a growing respect for the adversary, for a science that was so clean, so strict, so luminously rational."

p. 51 (HB)