Mathematics and Culture VI

Book Overview

Homage to Mario Merz.- The Eclipse.- Merz and Fibonacci, Vital Proliferations in Mathematics and Contemporary Art.- The Cinema According to Fibonacci.- Mathematics and Images.- PDEs, Images and Videotapes.- Mathematics in the Air with Solar Impulse.- The Marriage Game.- Mathematics and Psychoanalysis.- Mathematics for Psychoanalysis. Brouwer's Intuitionism from Descartes to Lacan.- Mathematics and Applications.- Search Engines and Mirrors of Society.- Mathematics and Cells: Brief Tales of Chemotaxis, Neurons and a Few Digressions.- Surprising Coincidences and Some Misunderstandings About "Rare" Events.- Mathematics and Design.- The Square Fish.- The Square: Homage to Bruno Munari.- Mathematics and Cartoons.- ?variste and H?lo?se.- Mathematics and Animated Cartoons.- Mathematics and Art.- Abstraction.- The Language of Mondrian: Algorithmic and Axiomatic Investigations.- Nature-Mathematics. An Operative Language.- Mathematics and Words.- Prime Time Entertainment.- Writing About Ramanujan.- Maat and Thalia.- Mathematics and Cinema.- Assioma 5: A Scientific, Mystical, Historical Film.- Mathematics and Wine.- Mathematics and Wine.- Homage to Alfred D?blin and Vincent Doeblin.- Doeblin and Kolmogorov: The Mathematisation of Probability in the Thirties.- Wolfgang Doeblin and the Kolmogoroff Equation.- Venice.- The Masks of Venice.- Venice and Marco Polo.- In Venice, Inside Its Grand History.- Telling the Wonders of the Discovery of America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642099599
• ISBN13: 9783642099595
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"