Overview
- Six research articles, two on Mamluk madrasas
- Conference reports
Part of the book series: Nexus Network Journal (NNJ, volume 9,1)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Letter from the Editor
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Research
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Geometer’s Angle
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Conference report
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Exhibit Review
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About this book
This issue is dedicated to various kinds of patterns in architecture. Buthayna Eilouti and Amer Al-Jokhadar address patterns in shape grammars in the ground plans of Mamluk madrasas, religious schools. Giulio Magli goes back further in history, to the age of Greek colonies in Italy before they were conquered by the Romans, to examine patterns in urban design. In Traditional Patterns in Pyrgi of Chios: Mathematics and Community Charoula Stathopoulou examines the geometric patterns that decorate the buildings of the town of Pyrgi, on the Greek island of Chios. Curve Fitting is a study of ways to construct a function so that its graph most closely approximates the pattern given by a set of points. Dirk Huylebrouck’s paper examines how a pattern of points extracted from an arch might be associated to a precise mathematical curve. James Harris looks at the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright and Piet Mondrian to extract the rules of their pattern generation and propose possible applications.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nexus Network Journal 9,1
Book Subtitle: Architecture and Mathematics
Editors: Kim Williams
Series Title: Nexus Network Journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8519-4
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8443-2Published: 16 April 2007
Series ISSN: 1590-5896
Series E-ISSN: 1522-4600
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: III, 155
Topics: Mathematics, general