Mathematics and Culture V

2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-34277-9
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

This volume of the "Mathematics and Culture" series is dedicated to Italian artist Armando Pizzicato. The work of Pollock is also discussed, thanks to the collaboration of the Venice Guggenheim Collection. Mathematics creates beauty in architecture, from topology to the projects of Gehry and Piano to the muqarnas of Islam. But mathematics can also save lives. Mathematical models can help fight cancer and AIDS, and intervene in their cure. Mathematics can also be used to protect the environment. In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the discussion of the use of mathematical models in meteorology and the prediction of storms is particularly timely. This volume wouldn't be complete without Venice and its glass, the fantastic collection of murrine of Giovanni Sarpellon. There is even a bit of magic, thanks to Bustric. And finally, an homage to a great mathematician: H.S.M. "Donald" Coxeter.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emmer, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Computeralgebra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Homage to Coxeter.- H. M. S. Coxeter: A Brief Tribute.- Donald in Wonderland: The Many-Faceted Life of H. S. M. Coxeter.- Mathematics and Images.- Vision and Reality: Empiricism and Geometry.- Stars.- Mathematics and Venice.- An Arbritarily Small Epsilon: The Murrine of Venice and Murano.- Mathematics and Applications.- Mathematical Models for Meteorology.- The Mathematics in defense of the environment.- Mathematics and Architecture.- The Muqarnas Dome of the Hall of the Two Sisters in the Alhambra in Granada.- Mathland: From Topology to Virtual Architecture.- Architecture as Topological Transformation.- The New ‘Parco della Musica’ Auditorium: Anatomy of a Mega-Project.- Mathematics and Education.- Mathematics in.: A Format for Mathematics Exhibits.- Learning Math Through the Arts.- Mathematics and Medicine.- Mathematics in the Blood.- HIV/AIDS, Agriculture and Food Security in Africa.- The Use of Mathematical Models for the Spread of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Mathematics and Fashion.- Abstraction and Concreteness, Rigour and Elegance.- Mathematics and Art.- Towards Mathematical Aesthetics.- The Search for Stress-reducing Fractal Art: From Jackson Pollock to Frank Gehry.- Armando Pizzinato.- Armando Pizzinato.- Armando Pizzinato: A Twentieth-Century Adventure in Expression.- Mathematics and Theatre.- Bustric Recounts Bustric.

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, and "The Visual Mind", MIT press; he is author of a book coauthored by D. Schattschneider "M.C. Escher's Legacy", Springer, and author of "Mathland: from Flatland to Hypersufaces", Birkhäuser. He is one of the editors of the VideoMath series by Springer.