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Mathematics and Culture II: Visual Perfection: Mathematics and Creativity

Editat de Michele Emmer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 ian 2005
Creativity plays an important role in all human activities, from the visual arts to cinema and theatre, and in particular in science and mathematics .
This volume, published only in English in the series "Mathematics and Culture", stresses the strong links between mathematics, culture and creativity in architecture, contemporary art, geometry, computer graphics, literature, theatre and cinema. So this book is designed not only for mathematicians but for all the people who have an interest in the various aspects of culture, both scientific and literary, with a special emphasis on the visual aspects.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783540213680
ISBN-10: 3540213686
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: X, 203 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:2005
Editura: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany

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Cuprins

Mathematics, Art and Architecture.- Mathematics, Art and Architecture.- From Tiling the Plane to Paving Town Square.- Mathematics in Contemporary Arts — Finite and Infinity.- De Insana Geometria.- Ovals in Borromini’s Geometry.- Fractals: A Resonance between Art and Nature.- Mathland — From Topology to Virtual Architecture.- Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics.- Introduction: Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics.- Math Awareness Month 2000: An Interactive Experience.- Visual Topology and Variational Problems on Two-Dimensional Surfaces.- Metarealistic Rendering of Real-time Interactive Computer Animations.- Virtual Sculptures.- Publication of Electronic Geometry Models.- Trees, Roots and a Brain: A Metaphorical Foundation for Mathematical Art.- Mathematics, Literature and Cinema.- Mathematics, Literature and Cinema.- Euclid’s Poetics: An examination of the similarity between narrative and proof.- The Rise of Narrative Non-Fiction.- Mathematics Takes Center Stage.- Mathematics and Raymond Queneau.

Notă biografică

Michele Emmer is professor of Mathematics at the University of Rome "La
Sapienza". As a filmaker he has realized several videos in the series "Art and
math", including the one on M.C. Escher. He is editor of the series
"Mathematics and Culture", Springer; "The Visual Mind", MIT press; with D.
Schattschneider "M.C. Escher's Legacy", Springer. Author of "Mathland: from
Flatland to Hypersufaces", Birkhauser

Caracteristici

This book is intended for mathematicians and for a more general audience, for teachers and for researchers, for students in almost all topics, in particular in art, humanities, psychology, design and literature It is a truely interdisciplinary volume, and serves as a source for ideas and suggestions in several fields Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras