Architecture and mathematics from an...
Ostwald, Michael J.

 

  • Architecture and mathematics from antiquity to the future.[electronic resource] /Volume I,Antiquity to the 1500s
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 720.151
    書名/作者: Architecture and mathematics from antiquity to the future./ edited by Kim Williams, Michael J. Ostwald.
    其他題名: Antiquity to the 1500s
    其他作者: Williams, Kim.
    出版者: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, 2015.
    面頁冊數: xix, 735 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Architecture - Mathematics
    標題: Mathematics.
    標題: Mathematics in Art and Architecture.
    標題: History of Mathematical Sciences.
    ISBN: 9783319001371 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9783319001364 (paper)
    內容註: Part I: Introduction -- Part II: From 2000 BC to 300AD -- Part III: Theories of Measurement and Structure -- Part IV: From 1100 AD to 1400 AD -- Part V: Theories of Proportion, Symmetry, Periodicity -- Part VI: From 1500 AD to 1600 AD -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
    摘要、提要註: The aim of this collection of essays is to present a broad portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are interconnected. The diversity and varied texture of the essays richly illustrates the affinity between architecture and mathematics. As the almost 100 papers presented in this two-volume publication show, every age and every culture has relied on principles of mathematics incorporated in their works of architecture to imbue their built environment with meaning and order. Included are discussions of geometry, proportional systems, linear algebra, periodic and aperiodic tilings, fractals, perspective, computer science and mechanics. Western architecture of every period is examined: Egyptian, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, twentieth-century and beyond, as is the architecture of Turkey, China, India, Japan, Australia and Islam. The mathematical nature of the architecture of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright is examined, and the philosophical background behind Renaissance architecture is explored. Contributors come from a wide range of disciplines and cultural backgrounds: architects, mathematicians, historians, theoreticians, scientists and educators from the world over. Architecture may be seen and understood in a new light, by professionals as well as non-professionals.
    電子資源: http://link.springer.com/openurl.asp?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-00137-1
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