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The Art of Science: From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness

Editat de Rossella Lupacchini, Annarita Angelini
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 2016
In addition to linear perspective, complex numbers and probability were notable discoveries of the Renaissance. While the power of perspective, which transformed Renaissance art, was quickly recognized, the scientific establishment treated both complex numbers and probability with much suspicion. It was only in the twentieth century that quantum theory showed how probability might be molded from complex numbers and defined the notion of “complex probability amplitude”. From a theoretical point of view, however, the space opened to painting by linear perspective and that opened to science by complex numbers share significant characteristics. The Art of Science explores this shared field with the purpose of extending Leonardo’s vision of painting to issues of mathematics and encouraging the reader to see science as an art. The intention is to restore a visual dimension to mathematical sciences – an element dulled, if not obscured, by historians, philosophers, and scientists themselves.
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ISBN-13: 9783319379074
ISBN-10: 3319379070
Pagini: 223
Ilustrații: XIII, 210 p. 74 illus., 21 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

From Perspective Drawing to the Eighth Dimension.- Seeing Reality in Perspective: The Art of Optics and the Science of Painting.- The Role of Perspective in the Transformation of European Culture.- Visual Differential Geometry and Beltramis Hyperbolic Plane.- All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras.- Artists & Gamblers on the Way to Quantum Physics.- Radices Sophisticae, Racines Imaginaires: The Origins of Complex Numbers in the Late Renaissance.- Random, Complex, and Quantum.

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Like linear perspective, complex numbers and probability are notable discoveries of the Renaissance. History has been quick to recognize the crucial impact of linear perspective on painting, but reluctant to acknowledge the importance of complex numbers and probability. Both were treated with a great deal of suspicion by the scientific establishment and overlooked for many years. It was only in the twentieth century, when quantum theory defined the notion of "complex probability amplitude", that complex numbers merged with probability and transformed the image of the physical world. From a theoretical point of view, however, the space opened to painting by linear perspective and the space opened to science by complex numbers are equally valuable and share significant characteristics. By exploring that common ground, The Art of Science will lead the reader to complement Leonardo’s vision of painting as a science and to see science as an art. Its aim is to restore a visual dimension to mathematical sciences – an element dulled, if not obscured, by historians, philosophers, and scientists themselves.

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Extends Leonardo's vision of painting as a science to "scientific representation" Restores a visual dimension to the mathematical sciences Highlights the shared characteristics of the space opened to painting by linear perspective and that opened to science by complex numbers