عنوان

Mathematical footprints :

1884550215

9781884550218

b422903

Mathematical footprints :

[Book]

discovering mathematical impressions all around us /

by Theoni Pappas

San Carlos, CA :

Wide World Publishing/Tetra,

c1999

228 p. :

ill. ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Early mathematics artifacts -- The very pervasive golden ration -- Seeing is not believing -- Mathematics and your money -- Mathematics, the framework of archetecture -- Hyperspace and beyond -- Mathematics and cubism -- Le grande arche -- The mathematical Pandora's box -- Mathematics and the body -- Will computers take the quantum leap -- Mathematics, Guggenheim Bilbao and Frank Gehry -- The Pythagorean theorem, the survivor -- Rings, helices and dolphins -- The art of Claude Monet -- How knots are tied to mathematics -- Chinese remainder theorem, a problem from the past -- Solitons -- Mathematics of weather forecasting -- Mathematics and the architecture of Arata Isozaki -- Fuzzy numbers -- Mathematics and the art of Alexander Calder -- Wavelets -- The longitude problem -- Mathematics is in the creases -- Mathematics and nature's formations -- Mathematics and the architecture of the pyramids -- Cellular automata, pixels of life -- Art-manifeste -- Mathematics finds its way around mazes -- Meter is a meter is a meter, or is it -- Molecular computers -- A mathematical look at time -- The universe, what's with it anyway -- Numbers help nail errors -- Mathematics and the art of Tony Robbin -- Have we heard the last of Fermat's last theorem -- Mathematics and the game of life -- Mathematics and the architecture of SFMOMA -- Music, matter and mathematics -- Nanotechnology is big stuff -- Soft computing -- It's crystal clear, or is it, quasicrystals and Penrose tiles -- Smart machines

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Mathematics, Miscellanea

Pappas, Theoni

20130312042023.0

[Book]

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