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    Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

    By: Gamwell, Lynn, 1943- [author.]Contributor(s): Tyson, Neil deGrasse [writer of foreword.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xviii, 556 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691165288; 0691165289Other title: Mathematics and art | Mathematics plus artSubject(s): Mathematics in art -- History | Mathematics -- Art -- Pictorial works | Art -- Mathematics -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 700.1/05 LOC classification: N72.M3 | G36 2016Other classification: 01A05 Online resources: The Alfred Bendiner Memorial Fund Home Page
    Contents:
    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.
    Summary: "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.
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    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.

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