Mathematics and art: a cultural history
Auteur :
Gamwell, Lynn
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691165288
Date de publication :
17 nov. 2015
Dimensions :
30,5 x 24,1 cm
Poids :
3119 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the disciplin