Imagine math: between culture and mathematics

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.