BUTA-NO KAKUNI EQUATION

The Braised Pork Belly Equation (BUTA-NO KAKUNI EQUATION) — serves 4 —

About the Math Art Museum

I call the body of media art works I create using mathematical formulas the “Math Art Museum.”

The project was born to realize a society where, as in the Renaissance exemplified by da Vinci, there is no boundary between art and science. Galileo Galilei said that “the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.” Just as artists paint beautiful natural landscapes with their brushes, mathematicians and physicists express our world in beautiful formulas using numbers and symbols.

With the goal of expressing everything through mathematical formulas, I create works that offer a taste of the beautiful world that formulas describe.

Works are also published on social media accounts (TikTok, Instagram, Twitter) bearing the project's name.

About This Work

The Braised Pork Belly Equation expresses the calories (energy) and the recipe of buta no kakuni — Japanese braised pork belly — as a mathematical formula.

This work attempts to express the law of conservation of energy and the recipe for braised pork belly as simply as possible.

The total calories of a dish are calculated by adding up the calories of each ingredient used in it.

Behind this simple addition lies a physical principle: in every reaction, energy must be conserved (the law of conservation of energy).

I hope this work shows how a universal law of physics connects even to the everyday act of cooking.

It also attempts to express a recipe in a form simpler than text or video — the formula shows only which ingredients are needed.

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