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Title Imagine math : between culture and mathematics / Michele Emmer, editor
Published Milan ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part 1. Introduction -- Introduction / Michele Emmer -- Part 2. Homage to Benoît Mandelbrot -- The Fantastic World of Tor' Bled-Nam / Michele Emmer -- Part 3. Venice and "La Fenice" -- The Reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice: "Splendidezze" and "dorature" (Gleam and Gilding) / Elisabetta Fabbri -- Part 4. Homage to Andrea Pozzo -- Exactitude and Extravagance: Andrea Pozzo's "Viewpoint" / Filippo Camerota -- The Apse Scenes in the Prospective Inventions of Andrea Pozzo / Silvia Carandini -- Andrea Pozzo: Art, Culture and Mathematics / Marco Costamagna -- Part 5. Homage to Hypatia -- Hypatia as Polymath / Michael A.B. Deakin -- Women's Contributions to the Progress of Mathematics: Lights and Shadows / Elisabetta Strickland -- Hypatia's Dream / Massimo Vincenzi -- Part 6. Mathematics and Art -- Modern Geometry versus Modern Architecture / Isabeau Birindelli and Renata Cedrone -- Visual Harmonies: An Exhibition on Art and Math / Michele Emmer -- Emilio Prini, Alison Knowles, and Art's Logic / Cornelia Lauf -- All the Numbers End in Numbers. On a Work by Alighiero Boetti / Andrea Valle -- Part 7. Mathematics and Literature -- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Human Sciences: The Attribution of Texts to Antonio Gramsci / Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti and Mirko Degli Esposti -- Lost in a Good Book: Jorge Borges' Inescapable Labyrinth / William Goldbloom Bloch -- Part 8. Mathematics and Applications -- The Many Faces of Lorenz Knots / Marco Abate -- Waiting for ABRACADABRA. Occurrences of Words and Leading Numbers / Emilio De Santis and Fabio Spizzichino -- Aperiodic Tiling / Gian Marco Todesco -- Part 9. Mathematics and Medicine -- Connecting Ventricular Assist Devices to the Aorta: A Numerical Model / Jean Bonnemain, Simone Deparis and Alfio Quarteroni -- Part 10. Mathematics Elsewhere -- Numeracy, Metrology and Mathematics in Mesopotamia: Social and Cultural Practices / Grégory Chambon -- Origami and Partial Differential Equations / Paolo Marcellini and Emanuele Paolini -- Part 11. Mathematics and Film -- The Möbius Strip / A film by Edouard Blondeau / Edouard Blondeau -- From Brigitte Bardot to Angelina Jolie / Michele Emmer -- Part 12. Homage to Luca Pacioli -- The Mathematical Ideas of Luca Pacioli Depicted by Iacopo de' Barbari in the Doppio ritratto / Enrico Gamba -- De divina proportione: From a Renaissance Treatise to a Multimedia Work for Theatre / Simone Sorini -- Part 13. Mathematics and Music -- Towards a Rational Practice of Arithmetic. A Model for Musical (and Multimedia) Composition / Francesco Scagliola
Summary Annotation Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. The volumes in the series Imagine Math are intended to contribute to grasping how much that is interesting and new is happening in the relationships between mathematics, imagination and culture. With a look at the past, at figures and events, that help to understand the phenomena of today. It is no coincidence that this volume contains an homage to the great Italian artist of the 1700s, Andrea Pozzo, and his perspective views. Theatre, art and architecture are the topics of choice, along with music, literature and cinema. No less important are applications of mathematics to medicine and economics. The treatment is rigorous but captivating, detailed but full of evocations, an all-embracing look at the world of mathematics and culture
Analysis Applications of Mathematics
Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Mathematics in Music
Mathematics in Art and Architecture
Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology
wetenschap
science
computerwetenschappen
computer sciences
toegepaste wiskunde
applied mathematics
wiskunde
mathematics
sociale wetenschappen
social sciences
geesteswetenschappen
humanities
kunst
arts
architectuur
architecture
muziek
music
Mathematics (General)
Wiskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Mathematics -- Social aspects.
Mathematics and literature.
Mathematics in art.
Mathematics.
Mathematics
Matemáticas -- Aspectos sociales
Matemáticas y literatura
Matemáticas en el arte
Mathematics
Mathematics and literature
Mathematics in art
Mathematics -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Emmer, Michele.
ISBN 9788847024274
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8847024269
9788847024267