Imagine math : between culture and mathematics / Michele Emmer, editor.
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Milan ; New York :
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[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction
- Introduction / Michele Emmer
- Part 2. Homage to Benoît Mandelbrot
- The Fantastic World of Tor' Bled-Nam / Michele Emmer
- Part 3. Venice and "La Fenice"
- The Reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice: "Splendidezze" and "dorature" (Gleam and Gilding) / Elisabetta Fabbri
- Part 4. Homage to Andrea Pozzo
- Exactitude and Extravagance: Andrea Pozzo's "Viewpoint" / Filippo Camerota
- The Apse Scenes in the Prospective Inventions of Andrea Pozzo / Silvia Carandini
- Andrea Pozzo: Art, Culture and Mathematics / Marco Costamagna
- Part 5. Homage to Hypatia
- Hypatia as Polymath / Michael A.B. Deakin
- Women's Contributions to the Progress of Mathematics: Lights and Shadows / Elisabetta Strickland
- Hypatia's Dream / Massimo Vincenzi
- Part 6. Mathematics and Art
- Modern Geometry versus Modern Architecture / Isabeau Birindelli and Renata Cedrone
- Visual Harmonies: An Exhibition on Art and Math / Michele Emmer
- Emilio Prini, Alison Knowles, and Art's Logic / Cornelia Lauf
- All the Numbers End in Numbers. On a Work by Alighiero Boetti / Andrea Valle
- Part 7. Mathematics and Literature
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Human Sciences: The Attribution of Texts to Antonio Gramsci / Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti and Mirko Degli Esposti
- Lost in a Good Book: Jorge Borges' Inescapable Labyrinth / William Goldbloom Bloch
- Part 8. Mathematics and Applications
- The Many Faces of Lorenz Knots / Marco Abate
- Waiting for ABRACADABRA. Occurrences of Words and Leading Numbers / Emilio De Santis and Fabio Spizzichino
- Aperiodic Tiling / Gian Marco Todesco
- Part 9. Mathematics and Medicine
- Connecting Ventricular Assist Devices to the Aorta: A Numerical Model / Jean Bonnemain, Simone Deparis and Alfio Quarteroni
- Part 10. Mathematics Elsewhere
- Numeracy, Metrology and Mathematics in Mesopotamia: Social and Cultural Practices / Grégory Chambon
- Origami and Partial Differential Equations / Paolo Marcellini and Emanuele Paolini
- Part 11. Mathematics and Film
- The Möbius Strip / A film by Edouard Blondeau / Edouard Blondeau
- From Brigitte Bardot to Angelina Jolie / Michele Emmer
- Part 12. Homage to Luca Pacioli
- The Mathematical Ideas of Luca Pacioli Depicted by Iacopo de' Barbari in the Doppio ritratto / Enrico Gamba
- De divina proportione: From a Renaissance Treatise to a Multimedia Work for Theatre / Simone Sorini
- Part 13. Mathematics and Music
- Towards a Rational Practice of Arithmetic. A Model for Musical (and Multimedia) Composition / Francesco Scagliola.