Mathematics and Culture I

Mathematics and Culture I

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Book Description
Mathematics has been very topical over the last few years. Theatre, cinema and books have all talked about mathematicians and mathematics. This book stresses the strong links between mathematics and culture, as mathematics links theatre, literature, architecture, art, cinema, medicine but also dance, cartoon and music. The articles introduced here are meant to be interesting and amusing starting points to research the strong connection between scientific and literary culture. This collection gathers contributions from cinema and theatre directors, musicians, architects, historians, physicians, experts in computer graphics and writers. In doing so, it highlights the cultural and formative character of mathematics, its educational value. But also its imaginative aspect: it is mathematics that is the creative force behind the screenplay of films such as "A Beautiful Mind", theatre plays like "Proof", musicals like "Fermat's Last Tango", successful books such as Simon Singh's "Fermat's Last Theorem" or Magnus Enzensberger's "The Number Devil".

Mathematics and Culture I,Michele Emmer,E. Moreale,Springer,3540017704,Applied,Congresses,General,History & Philosophy,Mathematics,Science/Mathematics,Social aspects,Science / General,art,cinema,culture,music

Books Review:

1. Mathematics for Engineers and Technologists (IIE Core Textbooks Series)
2. Measurement in Economics: Theory and Applications of Economics Indices
3. Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View (Theory and Decision Library A:)
4. Model-Oriented Design of Experiments (Lecture Notes in Statistics)
5. Modern Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers
6. Modular Algorithms in Symbolic Summation and Symbolic Integration (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
7. Molecular Evolution (Biomathematics)
8. Multichannel Optical Networks: Theory and Practice : Dimacs Workshop, March 16-19, 1998 (Dimacs Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science)
9. Multisensor Data Fusion (Artech House Radar/Electronic Warfare Library)
10. Nonlinear Diffusion Equations and their Equilibrum States (Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications)

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