Mathematics and Culture VI

by Emmer, Michele

• ISBN13: 9783540875680
• ISBN10: 3540875689
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The new volume in the series Mathematics and Culture continues a journey that began in 1998, a quest to describe the interplay of influences between the world of mathematics and the worlds of art, cinema, theatre and history, medicine, biology and aeronautics. The series editor, Michele Emmer, has chosen a new collection of essays that cast light on these connections in new, surprising and fascinating ways.

Table of Contents

Homage to Mario Merz
The Eclipse	p. 3
Merz and Fibonacci, Vital Proliferations in Mathematics and Contemporary Art	p. 5
The Cinema According to Fibonacci	p. 13
Mathematics and Images
PDEs, Images and Videotapes	p. 21
Mathematics in the Air with Solar Impulse	p. 33
The Marriage Game	p. 47
Mathematics and Psychoanalysis
Mathematics for Psychoanalysis. Brouwer's Intuitionism from Descartes to Lacan	p. 59
Mathematics and Applications
Search Engines and Mirrors of Society	p. 73
Mathematics and Cells: Brief Tales of Chemotaxis, Neurons and a Few Digressions	p. 83
Surprising Coincidences and Some Misunderstandings About "Rare" Events	p. 99
Mathematics and Design
The Square Fish	p. 121
The Square: Homage to Bruno Munari	p. 129
Mathematics and Cartoons
Evariste and Heloise	p. 147
Mathematics and Animated Cartoons	p. 159
Mathematics and Art
Abstraction	p. 173
The Language of Mondrian: Algorithmic and Axiomatic Investigations	p. 183
Nature-Mathematics. An Operative Language	p. 195
Mathematics and Words
Prime Time Entertainment	p. 201
Writing About Ramanujan	p. 209
Maat and Thalia	p. 217
Mathematics and Cinema
Assioma 5: A Scientific, Mystical, Historical Film	p. 229
Mathematics and Wine
Mathematics and Wine	p. 241
Homage to Alfred Doblin and Vincent Doeblin
Doeblin and Kolmogorov: The Mathematisation of Probability in the Thirties	p. 247
Wolfgang Doeblin and the Kolmogoroff Equation	p. 261
Venice
The Masks of Venice	p. 271
Venice and Marco Polo
Introduction	p. 283
In Venice, Inside Its Grand History	p. 285
Telling the Wonders of the Discovery of America	p. 289
Authors	p. 297
Mathematics and Culture Collection	p. 299
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