Mathematics and Culture I

by Emmer, Michele; Moreale, Emanuela

• ISBN13: 9783540017707
• ISBN10: 3540017704
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Mathematics has been very topical over the last few years. Theatre, cinema and books have all talked about mathematicians and mathematics. This book stresses the strong links between mathematics and culture, as mathematics links theatre, literature, architecture, art, cinema, medicine but also dance, cartoon and music. The articles introduced here are meant to be interesting and amusing starting points to research the strong connection between scientific and literary culture. This collection gathers contributions from cinema and theatre directors, musicians, architects, historians, physicians, experts in computer graphics and writers. In doing so, it highlights the cultural and formative character of mathematics, its educational value. But also its imaginative aspect: it is mathematics that is the creative force behind the screenplay of films such as "A Beautiful Mind", theatre plays like "Proof", musicals like "Fermat's Last Tango", successful books such as Simon Singh's "Fermat's Last Theorem" or Magnus Enzensberger's "The Number Devil".

Table of Contents

Mathematics
Research and Teaching in Mathematics: Conflict or Synthesis?
Claudio Procesi	3	(10)
The Discovery and Application of Linear and Nonlinear Programming
Harold W. Kuhn	13	(8)
Mathematics and History
Italian Mathematics, Fascism and Racial Policy
Giorgio Israel	21	(28)
Mathematics and Facism. The Case of Berlin
Jochen Bruning	49	(18)
Mathematics and Culture in Russia
Silvano Tagliagambe	67	(28)
Mathematics and Economics
Economists and Mathematics from 1494 to 1969
Marco Li Calzi, Achille Basile	95	(14)
Who Said that a Mathematician Cannot Win the Nobel Prize?
Achille Basile, Marco Li Calzi	109	(14)
Mathematics, Arts and Aesthetics
From Space as Container to Space as Web
Capi Corrales Rodriganez	123	(16)
Irrational Geometry
Achille Perilli	139	(8)
Mathematics and Cinema
Moebius Strip: From Art to Cinema
Michele Emmer	147	(6)
A Few Reflections on the Creation of "Moebius"
Gustavo Mosquera R	153	(8)
How to Create a Film
Peter Greenaway	161	(18)
Mathematical Centers
A Museum of Mathematics: How, Why and Where
Enrico Giusti	179	(4)
Pop Maths All Around the World
Michel Darche	183	(12)
The Mathemagical Mystery Tour: Maths in the Malls
Richard Mankiewicz	195	(8)
Mathematics and Literature
Mathematics and Literature
Lucio Russo	203	(4)
From Galilee to Galileo
Piergiorgio Odifreddi	207	(10)
Mathematics and Technology
Mathematical Visualization and Online Experiments
Konrad Polthier	217	(18)
Prime Numbers and Cryptography
Alessandro Languasco, Alberto Perelli	235	(10)
Homage to Venice
Essentiality of Mathematics for Bayesian Environmental Forecasting
Camillo Dejak, Roberto Pastres	245	(22)
Venice-Maths
Michele Emmer	267	(8)
Santa Margherita
Luciano Emmer	275	(6)
Mathematics and Music
Mathematics & Cultures, Mathematics & Musics: a Model for Bronze Instruments
Laura Tedeschini Lalli	281	(12)
Numbers in Asian Music
Tran Quang Hai	293	(12)
Mathematics and Medicine
Mathematics, Clinical Decisions and Public Health
Carla Rossi, Lucilla Rava	305	(24)
The Radon Transform and Its Applications to Medicine
Enrico Casadio Tarabusi	329	(12)
Risk Analysis for Liver Surgery
Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Bernhard Preim, Dirk Selle, Dominik Bohm, Andrea Schenk, Wolf Spindler	341	(10)
Authors	351