Mathematics And Culture II

by Emmer, Michele

• ISBN13: 9783540213680
• ISBN10: 3540213686
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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 creativity in architecture, contemporary art, geometry, computer graphics, literature, theatre and cinema. So this book is designed not only for mathematicians but for all the people who have an interest in the various aspects of culture, both scientific and literary, with a special emphasis on the visual aspects.

Author Biography

Michele Emmer is professor of Mathematics at the University of Rome "LaSapienza". As a filmaker he has realized several videos in the series "Art andmath", including the one on M.C. Escher. He is editor of the series"Mathematics and Culture", Springer; "The Visual Mind", MIT press; with D.Schattschneider "M.C. Escher's Legacy", Springer. Author of "Mathland: fromFlatland to Hypersufaces", Birkhauser

Table of Contents

Mathematics, Art and Architecture
Mathematics, Art and Architecture
Michele Emmer	3	(2)
From Tiling the Plane to Paving Town Square
Judith Flagg Moran and Kim Williams	5	(18)
Mathematics in Contemporary Arts - Finite and Infinity
Dietmar Guderian	23	(16)
De Insana Geometria
Achille Perilli	39	(6)
Ovals in Borromini's Geometry
Michea Simona	45	(8)
Fractals: A Resonance between Art and Nature
Richard Taylor, Ben Newell, Branka Spehar and Colin Clifford	53	(12)
Mathland - From Topology to Virtual Architecture
Michele Emmer	65	(16)
Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics
Introduction: Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics
Michele Emmer	81	(2)
Math Awareness Month 2000: An Interactive Experience
Thomas F. Banchoff and Davide P. Cervone	83	(16)
Visual Topology and Variational Problems on Two-Dimensional Surfaces
Anatoly T. Fomenko, Alexandr O. Ivanov and Alexey A. Tuzhilin	99	(26)
Metarealistic Rendering of Real-time Interactive Computer Animations
George K. Francis	125	(20)
Virtual Sculptures
Herbert W. Franke	145	(6)
Publication of Electronic Geometry Models
Michael Joswig and Konrad Polthier	151	(12)
Trees, Roots and a Brain: A Methaphorical Foundation for Mathematical Art
John Sims	163	(10)
Mathematics, Literature and Cinema
Mathematics, Literature and Cinema
Michele Emmer	173	(2)
Euclid's Poetics: An examination of the similarity between narrative and proof
Apostolos Doxiadis	175	(8)
The Rise of Narrative Non-Fiction
Simon Singh	183	(4)
Mathematics Takes Center Stage
Robert Osserman	187	(8)
Mathematics and Raymond Queneau
Michele Emmer	195	(6)
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