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The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns.

The Historical Antecedents, Initial Development, Maturity, and Dissemination of Islamic Geometric Patterns by Jay Bonner


The goal of this Handbook is to become an authoritative source with chapters that show the origins, unification, and points of similarity between different disciplines and mathematics.

A Computational Music Theory of Everything: Dream or Project? by Guerino Mazzola


This volume provides, for the first time, an extensive historical study on the history of folding in mathematics, spanning from the 16th century to the 20th century, and offers a general study on the ways mathematical knowledge is marginalised, disappears, is ignored or becomes obsolete.

Prolog to the Nineteenth Century: Accepting Folding as a Method of Inference by Michael Friedman


This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the differential geometry of parametrized curves and surfaces, along with a wealth of applications to specific architectural elements.

Parametrizations and Plane Curves by Alberto Lastra


This textbook invites readers to explore the properties of objects that we effortlessly recognize as symmetrical. From the human body, to elaborate artworks and abstract networks, symmetry is ubiquitous in the world around us; it is essential to function and beauty across the built and natural world.

The Five Platonic Solids by Kristopher Tapp


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