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The new volume in the series Mathematics and Culture continues a journey that began in 1998, a quest to describe the interplay of influences between the world of mathematics and the worlds of art, cinema, theatre and history, medicine, biology and aeronautics. The series editor, Michele Emmer, has chosen a new collection of essays that cast light on these connections in new, surprising and fascinating ways.
Mathematics and Culture VI includes:
An homage to the artist Mario Merz, some of whose work depicted numbers derived from the Fibonacci in curving neon arrays
Essays probing the relationships of mathematics with the moving images of video and cinema; the complex connections between mathematics and psychoanalysis and new frontiers of applied mathematics
Chapters entitled Mathematics and Cartoon; Mathematics and Art; Mathematics and Cinema, and Mathematics and wine, offering the observations of an international group of thinkers, writers and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines
A stimulating section following the journeys of Marco Polo, and exploring the Venice that both set him on his travels and welcomed him back, traverses not just miles but culture and science.
Written for both mathematicians, for teachers, students and researchers, and a broad audience of readers with an interest in the history of ideas, this book offers an excellent starting point for research into the tightly woven bonds between scientific and cultural endeavour.
List of contents
Homage to Mario Merz.- The Eclipse.- Merz and Fibonacci, Vital Proliferations in Mathematics and Contemporary Art.- The Cinema According to Fibonacci.- Mathematics and Images.- PDEs, Images and Videotapes.- Mathematics in the Air with Solar Impulse.- The Marriage Game.- Mathematics and Psychoanalysis.- Mathematics for Psychoanalysis. Brouwer's Intuitionism from Descartes to Lacan.- Mathematics and Applications.- Search Engines and Mirrors of Society.- Mathematics and Cells: Brief Tales of Chemotaxis, Neurons and a Few Digressions.- Surprising Coincidences and Some Misunderstandings About "Rare" Events.- Mathematics and Design.- The Square Fish.- The Square: Homage to Bruno Munari.- Mathematics and Cartoons.- Évariste and Héloïse.- Mathematics and Animated Cartoons.- Mathematics and Art.- Abstraction.- The Language of Mondrian: Algorithmic and Axiomatic Investigations.- Nature-Mathematics. An Operative Language.- Mathematics and Words.- Prime Time Entertainment.- Writing About Ramanujan.- Maat and Thalia.- Mathematics and Cinema.- Assioma 5: A Scientific, Mystical, Historical Film.- Mathematics and Wine.- Mathematics and Wine.- Homage to Alfred Döblin and Vincent Doeblin.- Doeblin and Kolmogorov: The Mathematisation of Probability in the Thirties.- Wolfgang Doeblin and the Kolmogoroff Equation.- Venice.- The Masks of Venice.- Venice and Marco Polo.- In Venice, Inside Its Grand History.- Telling the Wonders of the Discovery of America.
Summary
The latest in this Springer series probes the interplay between mathematics and the worlds of art, cinema, theatre and history, medicine, biology and aeronautics. Series Editor Michele Emmer has chosen essays illuminating these connections in fascinating ways.
