Mathematics and Culture II

Visual Perfection: Mathematics and Creativity
2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-21368-0
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

In addition to mathematicians, this book is intended 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 truly interdisciplinary volume, and serves as a source for ideas and suggestions in several fields

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emmer, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Numerische Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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