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Mathematics and culture VI / Michele Emmer (ed.).
- Title
- Mathematics and culture VI / Michele Emmer (ed.).
- Publication
- Berlin : Springer, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Emmer, Michele.
- Description
- ix, 299 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map; 25 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Matematica e cultura 2006. English.
- Alternative Title
- Mathematics and culture 6
- Mathematics and culture six
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- "Translation of the Italian language edition "Matematica e cultura 2006"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The eclipse / Manuela Gandini -- Merz and Fibonacci, vital proliferations in mathematics and contemporary art / Giovanni Maria Accame -- The cinema according to Fibonacci / Davide Ferrario -- PDEs, images and videotapes / Maurizio Falcone -- Mathematics in the air with solar impulse / Alfio Quarteroni [and others] -- The marriage game / Marco Li Calzi, M. Cristina Molinari -- Brouwer's intuitionism from Descartes to Lacan / Antonello Sciacchitano -- Search engines and mirrors of society / Massimo Marchiori -- Mathematics and cells : brief tales of chemotaxis, neurons and a few digressions / Giovanni Naldi -- Surprising coincidences and some misunderstandings about rare events / Fabio Spizzichino -- The square fish / Marco Campana -- The square : homage to Bruno Munari / Michele Emmer -- Évariste and Héloïse / Marco Abate -- Mathematics and animated cartoons / Gian Marco Todesco -- Abstraction / Michele Emmer -- The language of Mondrian : algorithmic and axiomatic investigations / Loe Feijs -- Nature-mathematics : an operative language Victor Simonetti -- Prime time entertainment / Marcus du Sautoy -- Writing about Ramanujan / Robert Kanigel -- Maat and Thalis / Maria Rosa Menzio -- Assioma 5 : a scientific, mystical, historical film / Adolfo Zilli, Elisa Cargnel -- Mathematics and wine / Antonio Terni -- Doeblin and Kolmogorov : the mathematisation of probability in the thirties / Carlo Boldrighini -- Wolfgang Doeblin and the Kolmogoroff equation / Marc Petit -- The masks of Venice / Lina Urban, Guerrino Lovato -- In Venice, inside its grand history / Silvano Gosparini, Nicola Sene -- Telling the wonders of the discovery of America / Michele Emmer.
- ISBN
- 9783540875680 (hbk.)
- 3540875689 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 277069403
- SCSB-10645035
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library