Beyond Measure: A Guided Tour Through Nature, Myth, and Number (Series on Knots and Everything, Volume 28, Band 28) - Softcover

Kappraff, Jay

 
9789810247027: Beyond Measure: A Guided Tour Through Nature, Myth, and Number (Series on Knots and Everything, Volume 28, Band 28)
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ISBN 10: 9810247028 ISBN 13: 9789810247027
Verlag: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cultural contexts and in nature: the ancient musical scale, proportion in architecture, ancient geometry, megalithic stone circles, the hidden pavements of the Laurentian library, the shapes of the Hebrew letters, and the shapes of biological forms. The focus is on how certain numbers, such as the golden and silver means, present themselves within these systems. Part II shows how many of the same numbers and number sequences are related to the modern mathematical study of numbers, dynamical systems, chaos, and fractals.

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Verlag
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9810247028
ISBN 13 
9789810247027
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Anzahl der Seiten
480
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