The Perfect Shape Spiral Stories /

• Main Author: Hammer, Øyvind (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Copernicus, 2016.
• Subjects: 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...