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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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
Summary
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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Aus den Rezensionen:
"Dieses Buch … ist eine interessante Ergänzung zum ersten Band. Wiederum weitet sich der Blick der Mathematik auf verschiedene Felder und hilft, Mathematik besser als Teil unserer Kultur zu verstehen. 19 Beiträge werden unter den 3 Überschriften ... geboten ... und laden zu weiterführenden Gedanken ein." (F. Schweiger, in: IMN - Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten, 2008, Vol. 62, Issue 208, S. 67)
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Aus den Rezensionen:
"Dieses Buch ... ist eine interessante Ergänzung zum ersten Band. Wiederum weitet sich der Blick der Mathematik auf verschiedene Felder und hilft, Mathematik besser als Teil unserer Kultur zu verstehen. 19 Beiträge werden unter den 3 Überschriften ... geboten ... und laden zu weiterführenden Gedanken ein." (F. Schweiger, in: IMN - Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten, 2008, Vol. 62, Issue 208, S. 67)
