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• Title:The visual mind II / edited by Michele Emmer.
  
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• Variant Title:Visual mind 2
  Visual mind two
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Emmer, Michele.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N72.M3 V58 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N72.M3 V58 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art--Mathematics.
  Geometry.
  Aesthetics.
  
• Description:xvi, 699 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:0262050765 (hc : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction / Michele Emmer
  1. phenomenology of mathematical beauty / Gian-Carlo Rota
  2. Mathematical beauty and the evolution of the standards of mathematical proof / James W. McAllister
  3. Aesthetics for computers, or how to measure harmony / Jaroslav Nesetril
  4. Visual mathematics : mathematics and art / Michele Emmer
  5. Life through art / Carmen Bonell
  6. John Robinson's symbolic sculptures : knots and mathematics / Ronald Brown
  7. Geometries of curvature and their aesthetics / Brent Collins
  8. Poetry in curves : the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao / Giuseppa Di Cristina
  9. Eightfold way : the sculpture / Helaman Ferguson and Claire Ferguson
  10. geometric aesthetic / George W. Hart
  11. Art and the age of the sciences / Charles Perry
  12. Some aspects of the use of geometry in my artistic work / Sylvie Pic
  13. Local/global in mathematics and painting / Capi Corrales Rodriganez and Laura Tedeschini-Lalli
  14. Visual knots : concerning geometry and visuality in the work of Marcel Duchamp / Manuel Corrada
  15. Lunda symmetry : where geometry meets art / Paulus Gerdes
  16. Four-dimensional space or space-time? : the emergence of the cubism-relativity myth in New York in the 1940s / Linda Dalrymple Henderson
  17. "Reverse perspective" : historical fallacies and an alternative view / Clemena Antonova and Martin Kemp
  18. Four-dimensional projection : art and reality / Tony Robbin
  19. Rational design versus artistic intuition in stained-glass art / Tomas Garcia Salgado
  20. Dynamics, chaos, and design / Michael Field
  21. Paul Klee on computer : biomathematical models help us understand his work / Roberto Giunti
  22. Parameterized sculpture families / Carlo H. Sequin
  23. aesthetic value of optimal geometry / John M. Sullivan
  24. Mathematics and cinema / Michele Emmer
  25. Some organizing principles / Peter Greenaway
  26. Figures and characters in the great book of nature / Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond
  27. Circle packings and the sacred lotus / Tibor Tarnai and Koji Miyazaki
  28. Meander mazes on polysphericons / Anthony Phillips.