The Perfect Shape Spiral Stories /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hammer, Øyvind (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Copernicus, 2016.
• Θέματα: Popular works.; History.; Animal anatomy.; Mathematics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Mathematics.; Mathematics in Art and Architecture.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; History of Science.

This book uses the spiral shape as a key to a multitude of strange and seemingly disparate stories about art, nature, science, mathematics, and the human endeavour. In a way, the book is itself organized as a spiral, with almost disconnected chapters circling around and closing in on the common them...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Spirals of the abyss.- Squaring the circle.- The icon.- The King of Snails.- Spira Mirabilis.- Circular tesselations.- How to brace a circle.- Sunflowers.- The great spiral in the sky.- The spiral of the ancient mariner.- Gnomons, a miracle, and Charles Babbage.- The uncoiling finger.- An interlude at the beach.- Spiral Jetty, Tatlin's Tower.- The Friend.- The labyrinths of history.- Sculptures of the sea  Maelstrom.- Nature red in blood and claw.- Pagan coils.- The case of the staircase
• Helix
• The quest for the sublime spiral
• Spirals of the mind
• The spider's spiral spin
• Helical trees
• Literature.  .