Mathematics and Culture II Visual Perfection Mathematics and Creativity [Hardcover]

In addition to mathematicians, this book is intended for a more general audience, for teachers and for researchers, for students in almost all topics, in particular in art, humanities, psychology, design and literature

It is a truly interdisciplinary volume, and serves as a source for ideas and suggestions in several fields

Creativity plays an important role in all human activities, from the visual arts to cinema and theatre, and in particular in science and mathematics .

This volume, published only in English in the series Mathematics and Culture , stresses the strong links between mathematics, culture and creativity in architecture, contemporary art, geometry, computer graphics, literature, theatre and cinema. So this book is designed not only for mathematicians but for all the people who have an interest in the various aspects of culture, both scientific and literary, with a special emphasis on the visual aspects.

Mathematics, Art and Architecture.- Mathematics, Art and Architecture.- From Tiling the Plane to Paving Town Square.- Mathematics in Contemporary Arts  Finite and Infinity.- De Insana Geometria.- Ovals in Borrominis Geometry.- Fractals: A Resonance between Art and Nature.- Mathland  From Topology to Virtual Architecture.- Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics.- Introduction: Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics.- Math Awareness Month 2000: An Interactive Experience.- Visual Topology and Variational Problems on Two-Dimensional Surfaces.- Metarealistic Rendering of Real-time Interactive Computer Animations.- Virtual Sculptures.- Publication of Electronic Geometry Models.- Trees, Roots and a Brain: A Metaphorical Foundation for Mathematical Art.- Mathematics, Literature and Cinema.- Mathematics, Literature and Cinema.- Euclids Poetics: An examination of the similarity between narrative and proof.- The Rise of Narrative Non-Fiction.- Mathematics Takes Cenlƒc