"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. The book is written 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."--Jacket.
Mathematics, art and architecture / Michele Emmer -- From tiling the plane to paving town square / Judith Flagg Moran and Kim Williams -- Mathematics in contemporary arts -- finite and infinity / Dietmar Guderian -- De Insana Geometria / Achille Perilli -- Ovals in Borromini's geometry / Michea Simona -- Fractals : a resonance between art and nature / Richard Taylor, Ben Newell, Branka Spehar and Colin Clifford -- Mathland -- from topology to virtual architecture / Michele Emmer -- Introduction : visual mathematics and computer graphics / Michele Emmer -- Math awareness month 2000 : an interactive experience / Thomas F. Banchoff and Davide P. Cervone -- Visual topology and variational problems on two-dimensional surfaces / Anatoly T. Fomenko, Alexandr O. Ivanov and Alexey A. Tuzhilin -- Metarealistic rendering of real-time interactive computer animations / George K. Francis -- Virtual sculptures / Herbert W. Franke -- Publication of electronic geometry models / Michael Joswig and Konrad Polthier -- Trees, roots and a brain : a methaphorical foundation for mathematical art / John Sims -- Mathematics, literature and cinema / Michele Emmer -- Euclid's poetics : an examination of the similarity between narrative and proof / Apostolos Doxiadis -- rise of narrative non-fiction / Simon Singh -- Mathematics takes center stage / Robert Osserman -- Mathematics and Raymond Queneau / Michele Emmer.