Dark and bright mathematics hidden harmony in art, history and culture /
Was it necessary for a 17th century painter to know principles of optics to hide a skull in one of his masterpieces? Is it possible the violent deaths of Roman emperors obey a statistical law? Are there connections between market trends and geometry? How did Islamic artists draw almost perfectly reg...
| Main Author: | Huylebrouck, D. |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| Published: |
Cham, Switzerland :
Birkhäuser,
[2023]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Copernicus books.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Part I
- Hell, Earth and Heaven in One Painting
- Hitlers Math
- Guernica
- Architect-Alchemist
- War Hero, Math Genius, Martyr
- Murder and Higher Math
- Murdering Emperors
- When the Dead Talk in Code
- Part II
- Columbus's Reference Line on Earth
- Mathematical Stock Advice
- The Fall of the Lottery
- The Mozarts of Mathematics
- Cold and Austere Beauty in Harbin, China
- Your Friends Are More Popular
- The Most Down-To-Earth Problem
- Meccano Math
- Part III
- Mathematical Meditation
- Did Newton's Apple Fall First in India?
- Allah's Nonagons
- Is Mathematics Halal?
- The Church's Perspective
- The Flower of Life
- A Meta-Divine Nautilus
- Happiness in Unprovability..