Mathematics And Culture IV

by Emmer, Michele

• ISBN13: 9783540342540
• ISBN10: 3540342540
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book from 2004 concerns comics and what was, in 2003, a developing tradition of Disney-style comic-strips. It also deals with the Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher. Indeed, several of his images can be seen in animated form. It talks about a man's dream, about Gaudi, and about his great ambition of climbing skywards with Barcelona's cathedral and of how this dream is still being realised.Of course, it also talks of theatre and cinema too. Luca Viganò's curious theatrical spectacle in Genoa about Evariste Galois. The America's Cup too, and how some mathematicians contributed to the Swiss boat's victory in the world's most important sailing adventure.It talks about war and peace, themes which never date. All this and a tribute to the mathematician Ennio De Giorgi, who ought to have been the first speaker at the first conference on "Mathematics and Culture". In short, an ongoing mathematical adventure...

Table of Contents

Mathematicians
Ennio De Giorgi Remembered	p. 3
X Day, the Greats of 20th Century Science: Ennio De Giorgi	p. 9
Mathematics and Comics
Writing Mathematics in Comics	p. 19
Madmatics	p. 31
Mathematics and Secret Codes
A 16th Century Cryptographic Treatise: Agostino Amadi's Zifre, Between Humanistic Culture and Practical Mathematics	p. 39
Mathematics from War to Peace: Operations Research	p. 51
Mathematics and Cinema
Turing and the Enigma	p. 63
Mathematics and Medicine
Computer Simulation and Visualization	p. 71
From Butterflies to Microships: How Biology in the Third Millennium Aspires to Mathematics	p. 87
Mathematics and Images
Mathematical Images and the Image of Mathematics	p. 99
A Beatiful Mind: A Film by Ron Howard, a Book by Sylvia Nasar	p. 115
Mathematics and Applications
Mathematics and Industry	p. 123
Researching Viable Scientific Approaches to Marine Ecosystems	p. 133
Mathematics and Architecture
Gaudi Innovator	p. 143
Mathematics and Theatre
My Galois	p. 171
Mathematics and Poetry
Encounters	p. 181
Lament The Botanical Gardens Outside Newton's House	p. 182
Mathematics and Mysticism
The Kabbalah and the Mysticism of Words	p. 191
Mathematics in the Ocean
When Mathematics Goes Sailing (in America's Cup)	p. 207
Mathematics and Escher
The Mathematical Structure of Escher's Print Gallery	p. 217
Animating M.C. Escher	p. 227
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