Overview
- Only school-level geometry required
- Provides new ways of analysing Islamic Geometric ornament
- Shows development and geographical range of the art
- Combines historical and mathematical study of Islamic art
Part of the book series: Mathematics and the Built Environment (MABE, volume 2)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Cultural Context
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Mathematical Analysis
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About this book
The presentation offers unlimited precision that allows software to reconstruct the design vision of the original artist. This book will be of interest to Islamic academics, mathematicians as well as to artists & art students.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
David Wade is the author of a number of books about Islamic Art and related topics. He is also responsible for the web site patterninislamicart.com which has over 4,000 photographs of patterns in Islamic Art. This is a major source of photographs for the book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach
Authors: Brian Wichmann, David Wade
Series Title: Mathematics and the Built Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69977-6
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69976-9Published: 18 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09923-7Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69977-6Published: 02 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2512-157X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1561
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 164 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geometry, Cultural History