Overview
- Research and cultural mathematics highlights from a well-known conference
- Covers interaction of mathematics and art
- Best conference on links between general culture and mathematics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This work contains the proceedings of the "Mathematics and Culture" conference held in Venice in March 2002. The conference aims to act as a bridge across the various aspects of human knowledge.
While keeping mathematics as its core, it is aimed at anyone endowed with cultural curiosity and interests, whether within or (even more so) outside mathematics.
This volume therefore covers music, cinema, art, theatre and literature, with topics ranging from Tibet to comics.
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From the reviews:
“This is a collection of papers that highlight the relation between mathematics and culture in the broadest sense. … it is an eye-opener to many who might experience mathematics as an invention to terrorise children at school. … It is an excellent tool to raise public awareness of mathematics. It can be easily used by teachers or lecturers as a Trojan horse to conquer the fortress of the less mathematically inclined.” (A. Bultheel, The European Mathematical Society, October, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematics and Culture III
Editors: Michele Emmer
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-34259-5Published: 27 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43262-0Published: 09 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 280
Additional Information: Original Italian edition published by Springer-Verlag Italia, 2003
Topics: Mathematics, general, Visualization, Applications of Mathematics, History of Mathematical Sciences, Popular Science, general