100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts - Softcover

Barrow, John D.

 
9780393352221: 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393352226 ISBN 13: 9780393352221
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

A mathematician illustrates the intersection between math and the arts in 100 fascinating and amusing examples, including the golden ratios in Mondrian's rectangles, Jackson Pollock's fractal-like splatter paintings, ballerinas defying gravity and the calculations needed to determine how many guards should staff an art gallery. Illustrations.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John D. Barrow is professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the best-selling author of many books on science and mathematics, including Mathletics: 100 Amazing Things You Didn't Know about the World of Sports and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393352226
ISBN 13 
9780393352221
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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