Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History By Lynn Gamwell
| #23425 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2015-11-24 | Original language: English | PDF # 1 | 12.10 x 1.70 x 9.50l, .0 | File type: PDF | 576 pages | File size: 48.Mb
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Most Helpful 6 of 6 review helpful A heavy in all senses book of fascinating images and text exploring the relationship of maths and art By Brian Clegg I have to start by saying that I have never really understood the point of coffee table books There is no way anyone is going to comfortably read Mathematics Art as it s around 25 cm by 32 cm and weighs in at a wrist crunching 3 kg heavier than many laptops The pric This is a cultural history of mathematics and art from antiquity to the present Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists Sumptuous illustrations o This is a marvelous coffee table book very well researched and documented It touches upon so many fundamental questions that philosophers scientists mathematicians and artists have asked since antiquity But yet it guides the reader smoothly through al
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