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Imagine math: between culture and mathematics
Publisher
Springer Italia
Publication Date
c2012
Language
English
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From the Book
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.
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9788847024267
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