Creativity plays an important role in all human activities, from the visual arts to cinema and theatre, and in particular in science and mathematics .
This volume, published only in English in the series "Mathematics and Culture", stresses the strong links between mathematics, culture and creativity in architecture, contemporary art, geometry, computer graphics, literature, theatre and cinema. So this book is designed not only for mathematicians but for all the people who have an interest in the various aspects of culture, both scientific and literary, with a special emphasis on the visual aspects.
Mathematics and Culture II Michele Emmer Mathematics and Culture II Visual Perfection: Mathematics and Creativity Editor Michele Emmer Dipartimento di Matematica “G. Castelnuovo” Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy Piazzale Aldo Moro 2 00185 Roma, Italy e-mail:
[email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2003064905 A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at . The articles by Apostolos Doxiadis Euclid’s Poetics: An examination of the similarity between narrative and proof, Simon Singh The Rise of Narrative Non-Fiction and Robert Osserman Mathematics Takes Center Stage were originally published in Italian in Matematica e Cultura 2002, 88-470-0154-4 by Springer Italia, Milano 2002. The Articles Mathematics and Culture: Ever New Ideas; Mathematics, Art and Architecture; Mathland: From Topology to Virtual Architecture; Mathematics, Liter