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Mathematics and Modern Art

Proceedings of the First ESMA Conference, held in Paris, July 19-22, 2010

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  • Important conference in the interaction of mathematics, information technology and art
  • Information technology for Cultural Heritage is a growing topic
  • Book fits for instance well into the Digital Agenda for Europe, see ERCIM News, No.86, July 2011?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics (PROM, volume 18)

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Dimensions, a Math Movie

    • AurĂ©lien Alvarez, Jos Leys
    Pages 11-16
  3. Computer, Mathematics and Art

    • Jean-François Colonna
    Pages 47-52
  4. Mathematics and Music Boxes

    • Vi Hart
    Pages 79-84
  5. My Mathematical Engravings

    • Patrice Jeener
    Pages 85-104
  6. Knots and Links As Form-Generating Structures

    • Dmitri Kozlov
    Pages 105-115
  7. Geometry and Art from the Cordovan Proportion

    • Antonia Redondo Buitrago, EncarnaciĂ³n Reyes Iglesias
    Pages 117-129
  8. Dynamic Surfaces

    • Simon Salamon
    Pages 131-151
  9. Pleasing Shapes for Topological Objects

    • John M. Sullivan
    Pages 153-165
  10. Rhombopolyclonic Polygonal Rosettes Theory

    • François Tard
    Pages 167-176
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 177-178

About this book

The link between mathematics and art remains as strong today as it was in the earliest instances of decorative and ritual art. Arts, architecture, music and painting have for a long time been sources of new developments in mathematics, and vice versa. Many great painters have seen no contradiction between artistic and mathematical endeavors, contributing to the progress of both, using mathematical principles to guide their visual creativity, enriching their visual environment with the new objects created by the mathematical science.

Owing to the recent development of the so nice techniques for visualization, while mathematicians can better explore these new mathematical objects, artists can use them to emphasize their intrinsic beauty, and create quite new sceneries. This volume, the content of the first conference of the European Society for Mathematics and the Arts (ESMA), held in Paris in 2010, gives an overview on some significant and beautiful recent works where maths and art, including architecture and music, are interwoven. 

The book includes a wealth of mathematical illustrations from several basic mathematical fields including classical geometry, topology, differential geometry, dynamical systems.  Here, artists and mathematicians alike elucidate the thought processes and the tools used to create their work

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut Henri PoincarĂ©, ESMA, Paris Cedex 0, France

    Claude Bruter

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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