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Book SynopsisThis work contains the proceedings of the "Mathematics and Culture" conference held in Venice in March 2002. The conference aims to act as a bridge across the various aspects of human knowledge.
While keeping mathematics as its core, it is aimed at anyone endowed with cultural curiosity and interests, whether within or (even more so) outside mathematics.
This volume therefore covers music, cinema, art, theatre and literature, with topics ranging from Tibet to comics.
Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:
“This is a collection of papers that highlight the relation between mathematics and culture in the broadest sense. … it is an eye-opener to many who might experience mathematics as an invention to terrorise children at school. … It is an excellent tool to raise public awareness of mathematics. It can be easily used by teachers or lecturers as a Trojan horse to conquer the fortress of the less mathematically inclined.” (A. Bultheel, The European Mathematical Society, October, 2012)
Table of ContentsI Mathematicians: Open Your Eyes Through Mathematics by Emma Castelnuovo.- The Theory of Motion from Hellenism to the 20th Century by Giovanni Gallavotti.- How Mathematics Helps Us Avoid Biases by Aljoša Volcic.- II Mathematics and Music: Mathematical Modelling of Musical Sounds by Giovanni De Poli.- What Time-Frequency Analysis Can Do to Music Signals (and What It Can’t Do) by Monica Dörfler.- … Listen:… By Laura Tedeschini Lalli.- Being an Artist with Mathematics and a Computer by Stefano Busello.- Escher-Like Perspectives and Music Production by Claudio Ambrosini- III Mathematics and Art: Complexity in Art: Klee, Duchamp and Escher by Roberto Giunti.- Stayin’ Alive (Just Barely): The Fate of the Geometrical Fourth Dimension at Mid-Century by Linda Dalrypmple Henderson.- The pleasure of threads: The Visual Experience of Fred Sandback’s sculptures by Manuel Corrada.- Paladino’s Mathematicians by Enzo di Martino.- IV Mathematics and Cinema: Mathematics in the Movies: A Case Study by Harold W. Kuhn.- V Mathematics and Venice: Luca Pacioli and Venice by Giovanni Fazzini.- A Venetian Comic Book by Luca Boschi, Michele Emmer.- Labyrinths by Michele Emmer, Gian Marco Todesco.- The Romance of Double-Entry Bookkeeping by Anthony Phillips.- VI Peking 2002: Is Chinese Mathematics Chinese? by Jean-Claude Martzloff.- Why Mathematics in Ancient China? by Anjing Qu.- The "Lack of Grounding" of Chinese Astronomy: a Communis Opinio of XVII century Europe by Francesco D’Arelli.- A Mathematician in Lhasa by Michele Emmer.- VII Mathematics and Theatre: Infinity and the Search for Simplicity by Sergio Escobar.- VIII Mathematics and Comic Strips: Digital Character Construction in Walt Disney Pictures' Feature "Dinosaur" by Stewart Dickson.- Comics and MathMagic: Notes on Disney Numerology by Luca Boschi
