This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists. Sumptuous illustrations of artworks and cogent math diagrams are featured in Gamwell's comprehensive exploration.
Gamwell begins by...
This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understan...
How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired French Impressionist painters and Art Nouveau arch
How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview i...
