| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 253 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some col.) |
| Contents |
Mathematicians -- Ennio De Giorgi Remembered -- X Day, the Greats of 20th Century Science: Ennio De Giorgi -- Mathematics and Comics -- Writing Mathematics in Comics -- Madmatics -- Mathematics and Secret Codes -- A 16th Century Cryptographic Treatise: Agostino Amadis Zifre, Between Humanistic Culture and Practical Mathematics -- Mathematics from War to Peace: Operations Research -- Mathematics and Cinema -- Turing and the Enigma -- Mathematics and Medicine -- Computer Simulation and Visualization -- From Butterflies to Microchips: How Biology in the Third Millennium Aspires to Mathematics -- Mathematics and Images -- Mathematical Images and the Image of Mathematics -- A Beautiful Mind: A Film by Ron Howard, a Book by Sylvia Nasar -- Mathematics and Applications -- Mathematics and Industry -- Researching Viable Scientific Approaches to Marine Ecosystems -- Mathematics and Architecture -- Gaud Innovator -- Mathematics and Theatre -- My Galois -- Mathematics and Poetry -- Encounters -- Lament -- Mathematics and Mysticism -- The Kabbalah and the Mysticism of Words -- Mathematics in the Ocean -- When Mathematics Goes Sailing (in Americas Cup) -- Mathematics and Escher -- The Mathematical Structure of Eschers Print Gallery -- Animating M.C. Escher |
| Summary |
Mathematical themes have been explored in many recent films, plays and books. This volume, whose aim is the popularization of mathematics, contains a series of accounts which show in these cultural contexts that mathematics is a vibrant and intriguing subject for the non-specialist. In the same spirit, other contributions cover mathematics in art, architecture, cryptography, and the medical and physical sciences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translation of: Matematica e cultura 2004 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Congresses
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Mathematics -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Emmer, Michele, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783540342557 |
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3540342559 |
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