Imagine Math 3 Between Culture and Mathematics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Emmer, Michele (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Popular works.; Mathematics in Art and Architecture.; Mathematics Education.; Popular Science, general.

Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. This volume in the series “Imagine Math” casts light on what is new and interesting in the relationships between mathematics, imagination, and culture. The book opens by examining the connection...

Table of Contents:

• Science Fiction, Art and the Fourth Dimension
• From Modernity to Immortality: Art and Mathematics in the Twenties
• Geometrical Models and Imaginations
• From Sinisgalli to Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Mathematical Narratives and the Surrealist Tradition
• Anxious Geometries
• Pasta By Design: The New Geometries of Pasta
• Photos, Objects and 3D Reconstructions
• Geometry, Numbers & Diagrams in the New York Art Scene around 1960
• The Islands of Benoît Mandeblrot: On the relationship between abstract reasoning and visual imagination
• Fractals and Nervous System
• New Mathematics and Architecture
• In search of the Lost Roots
• Probabilities and Traps of Intuition
• Sand grains and Earthquakes
• Henry Moore and Strings
• Fluid Architecture
• Sagrada Familia
• Fragments of an Existentialist Mathematics
• Living numbers.