Introduction / Michele Emmer |
Mathematics and Aesthetics / Section 1: |
The Phenomenology of Mathematical Beauty / Gian-Carlo Rota1: |
Mathematical Beauty and the Evolution of the Standards of Mathematical Proof / James W. McAllister2: |
Aesthetics for Computers, or How to Measure Harmony / Jaroslav Nesetril3: |
Visual Mathematics: Mathematics and Art / 4: |
Geometry and Art / Section 2: |
Life Through Art / Carmen Bonell5: |
John Robinson's Symbolic Sculptures: Knots and Mathematics / Ronald Brown6: |
Geometries of Curvature and Their Aesthetics / Brent Collins7: |
Poetry in Curves: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao / Giusppa Di Cristina8: |
Eightfold Way: The Sculpture / Helaman Ferguson ; Claire Ferguson9: |
The Geometric Aesthetic / George W. Hart10: |
Art and the Age of the Sciences / Charles Perry11: |
Some Aspects of the Use of Geometry in My Artistic Work / Sylvie Pic12: |
Mathematics and Art / Section 3: |
Local/Global in Mathematics and Painting / Capi Corrales Rodriganez ; Laura Tedeschini-Lalli13: |
Visual Knots: Concerning Geometry and Visuality in the Work of Marcel Duchamp / Manuel Corrada14: |
Lunda Symmetry: Where Geometry Meets Art / Paulus Gerdes15: |
Four-Dimensional Space or Space-Time? The Emergence of the Cubism-Relativity Myth in New York in the 1940s / Linda Dalrymple Henderson16: |
"Reverse Perspective": Historical Fallacies and an Alternative View / Clemena Antonova ; Martin Kemp17: |
Four-Dimensional Projection: Art and Reality / Tony Robbin18: |
Rational Design versus Artistic Intuition in Stained-Glass Art / Tomas Garcia Salgado19: |
Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Art / Section 4: |
Dynamics, Chaos, and Design / Michael Field20: |
Paul Klee on Computer: Biomathematical Models Help Us Understand His Work / Roberto Giunti21: |
Parameterized Sculpture Families / Carlo H. Sequin22: |
The Aesthetic Value of Optimal Geometry / John M. Sullivan23: |
Mathematics, Visualization, and Cinema / Section 5: |
Mathematics and Cinema / 24: |
Some Organizing Principles / Peter Greenaway25: |
Figures and Characters in the Great Book of Nature / Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond26: |
Circle Packings and the Sacred Lotus / Tibor Tarnai ; Koji Miyazaki27: |
Meander Mazes on Polysphericons / Anthony Phillips28: |
Contributors |
Name Index |
Subject Index |
Introduction / Michele Emmer |
Mathematics and Aesthetics / Section 1: |
The Phenomenology of Mathematical Beauty / Gian-Carlo Rota1: |
Mathematical Beauty and the Evolution of the Standards of Mathematical Proof / James W. McAllister2: |
Aesthetics for Computers, or How to Measure Harmony / Jaroslav Nesetril3: |
Visual Mathematics: Mathematics and Art / 4: |