Mathematics and Culture IV
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 spir...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of 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 Amadi’s 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
- Gaudí 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 America’s Cup)
- Mathematics and Escher
- The Mathematical Structure of Escher’s Print Gallery
- Animating M.C. Escher