Could you imagine opening a math text and seeing clothing and fabric designs? That's exactly what's been happening with Jhane Barnes, who partnered not only with Ohio Math Works, but also wrote several pages in an Algebra II textbook for McDougal Littell. In addition, Jhane once held a symposium in New York which included some of the nation's top mathematicians, where they shared their ideas on art and mathematics with people from science and fashion. Indeed, math is the source for many of Jhane's textile designs, so it's only natural that she's the star of the OMW video.

That's a lot of math for someone who admits that math was her worst subject in school, isn't it?

Jhane started designing clothes in high school in the early 70's, and despite an early desire to study to become an Astro Physicist, she eventually decided to go to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Even as a student, Jhane received lots of recognition from the fashion press. And a year after starting her own business, Jhane Barnes, Inc., she started receiving awards. In 1980, Jhane was the youngest person, and the only woman, ever to receive the prestigious COTY Menswear award. Since that time, she's racked up award after award for her creative fabric designs and innovative use of color and texture.

Jhane remains a top designer of menswear, but she has also introduced three furniture collections and a carpet collection – and has won awards for those, too. In addition, Jhane has designed the new uniforms for the Orlando Magic basketball team.

Our thanks also go to her mathematicians, Bill Jones and Dana Cartwright of Designer Software LLC for their assistance with the videos, lessons and web site.

Bill Jones is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Designer Software. He holds both Master's (Syracuse University) and Bachelor's (Utica College) degrees in Mathematics. His first full time employer was GE, where in the late 1950's he created one of the first operating systems ever, for accelerating the processing of missile test data for ICBM guidance systems. At Designer Software, Bill writes the pattern generators found in WeaveMaker, PreVIEW, and Surface Magic.

Dana Cartwright joined Designer Software in 1992 and is currently President of the company. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Syracuse University and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Earlham College. He wrote his first software application in 1968 (doubling the throughput of the card reader for an IBM 1130 computer). Dana is the chief software architect of Designer Software, having designed and written WeaveMaker, Surface Magic, TieMaker, MillSpec, Match, and PreVIEW. He is also responsible for developing the cross-platform engine which enables all DSI software products to run on all Macintosh, Windows 95, and Windows NT computers.