Mathematics and the Aesthetic New Approaches to an Ancient Affinity /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sinclair, Nathalie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pimm, David (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Higginson, William (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Σειρά: CMS Books in Mathematics,
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Mathematics, general.

The essays in this book explore the ancient affinity between the mathematical and the aesthetic, focusing on the fundamental connections between these two modes of reasoning and communicating. From historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives, with particular attention to certain mathema...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• A Historical Gaze at the Mathematical Aesthetic
• A Historical Gaze at the Mathematical Aesthetic
• The Mathematician’s Art
• Aesthetics for the Working Mathematician
• Beauty and Truth in Mathematics
• Experiencing Meanings in Geometry
• A Sense for Mathematics
• The Aesthetic Sensibilities of Mathematicians
• The Meaning of Pattern
• Mathematics, Aesthetics and Being Human
• Mathematical Agency
• Mechanism and Magic in the Psychology of Dynamic Geometry
• Drawing on the Image in Mathematics and Art
• Sensible Objects
• Aesthetics and the ‘Mathematical Mind’.