Mathematics and Culture II Visual Perfection: Mathematics and Creativity /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Emmer, Michele (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Visualization.; History.; Applications of Mathematics.; Mathematics, general.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

Creativity plays an important role in all human activities, from the visual arts to cinema and theatre, and in particular in science and mathematics . This volume, published only in English in the series "Mathematics and Culture", stresses the strong links between mathematics, culture and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Mathematics, Art and Architecture
• Mathematics, Art and Architecture
• From Tiling the Plane to Paving Town Square
• Mathematics in Contemporary Arts — Finite and Infinity
• De Insana Geometria
• Ovals in Borromini’s Geometry
• Fractals: A Resonance between Art and Nature
• Mathland — From Topology to Virtual Architecture
• Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics
• Introduction: Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics
• Math Awareness Month 2000: An Interactive Experience
• Visual Topology and Variational Problems on Two-Dimensional Surfaces
• Metarealistic Rendering of Real-time Interactive Computer Animations
• Virtual Sculptures
• Publication of Electronic Geometry Models
• Trees, Roots and a Brain: A Metaphorical Foundation for Mathematical Art
• Mathematics, Literature and Cinema
• Mathematics, Literature and Cinema
• Euclid’s Poetics: An examination of the similarity between narrative and proof
• The Rise of Narrative Non-Fiction
• Mathematics Takes Center Stage
• Mathematics and Raymond Queneau.