Gamwell, Lynn, 1943-
Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Mathematics and art Mathematics plus art Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. - xviii, 556 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-545) and index.
Arithmetic and geometry -- Proportion -- Infinity -- Formalism -- Logic -- Intuitionism -- Symmetry -- Utopian visions after World War I -- The incompleteness of mathematics -- Computation -- Geometric abstraction after World War II -- Computers in mathematics and art -- Platonism in the postmodern era.
"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 of artworks and cogent math diagrams are featured in Gamwell's comprehensive exploration"--Publisher's website.
9780691165288 0691165289
9780691165288
2014959232
Mathematics in art--History.
Mathematics--Art--Pictorial works.
Art--Mathematics--Pictorial works.
N72.M3 / G36 2016
700.1/05
Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Mathematics and art Mathematics plus art Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. - xviii, 556 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-545) and index.
Arithmetic and geometry -- Proportion -- Infinity -- Formalism -- Logic -- Intuitionism -- Symmetry -- Utopian visions after World War I -- The incompleteness of mathematics -- Computation -- Geometric abstraction after World War II -- Computers in mathematics and art -- Platonism in the postmodern era.
"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 of artworks and cogent math diagrams are featured in Gamwell's comprehensive exploration"--Publisher's website.
9780691165288 0691165289
9780691165288
2014959232
Mathematics in art--History.
Mathematics--Art--Pictorial works.
Art--Mathematics--Pictorial works.
N72.M3 / G36 2016
700.1/05