The Geometry of Hope
Author : Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Publisher : Blanton Museum of Art
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Publisher : Blanton Museum of Art
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Remo Bodei
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1487503369
The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision. By means of a theoretical and historical analysis, Bodei interprets the relationship between passion and reason as a conflict between two complementary logics. Geometry of the Passions investigates the paradoxical conflict-collaboration between passions and reason, and between individual and political projects. Tracing the roles passion and reason have played throughout history, including in the political agendas of Descartes, Hobbes, and the French Jacobins, Geometry of the Passions reveals how passion and reason may be used as a vehicle for affirmation rather than self-enslavement.
Author : Kirsti Andersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2008-11-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387489460
This review of literature on perspective constructions from the Renaissance through the 18th century covers 175 authors, emphasizing Peiro della Francesca, Guidobaldo del Monte, Simon Stevin, Brook Taylor, and Johann Heinrich. It treats such topics as the various methods of constructing perspective, the development of theories underlying the constructions, and the communication between mathematicians and artisans in these developments.
Author : Gerald Harper Thomas
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9812566171
Geometry, Language and Strategy is a way of looking at game theory or strategic decision-making from a scientific perspective, using standard equations from the fields of engineering and physics. To better approximate reality, it extends game theory beyond the two-player set piece.The book begins where former game theory literature ends ? with multi-person games on a world stage. It encompasses many of the variables encountered in strategic planning, using mathematics borrowed from physics and engineering, rather than the economic models which have not proven to be good in predicting reality.
Author : Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Publisher : Grafiche Damiani
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788862081757
This book is the first substantial survey of Farmanfarmaian's acclaimed geometric works.
Author : Robert Bork
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351888978
The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise "blueprints" with simple tools such as the compass and straightedge, Gothic draftsmen were able to develop a linearized architecture of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. Examination of their surviving drawings can provide valuable and remarkably intimate information about the Gothic design process. Gothic drawings include compass pricks, uninked construction lines, and other telltale traces of the draftsman's geometrically based working method. The proportions of the drawings, moreover, are those actually intended by the designer, uncompromised by errors introduced in the construction process. All of these features make these drawings ideal subjects for the study of Gothic design practice, but their geometry has to date received little systematic attention. This book offers a new perspective on Gothic architectural creativity. It shows, in a series of rigorous geometrical case studies, how Gothic design evolved over time, in two senses: in the hours of the draftsman's labor, and across the centuries of the late Middle Ages. In each case study, a series of computer graphics show in unprecedented detail how a medieval designer could have developed his architectural concept step by step, using only basic geometrical operations. Taken together, these analyses demonstrate both remarkable methodological continuity across the Gothic era, and the progressive development of new and sophisticated permutations on venerable design themes. This rich tradition ultimately gave way in the Renaissance not because of any inherent problem with Gothic architecture, but because the visual language of Classicism appealed more directly to the pretensions of Humanist princes than the more abstract geometrical order of Gothic design, as the book's final chapter demonstrates.
Author : Roland Deaux
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486158047
Geared toward readers unfamiliar with complex numbers, this text explains how to solve problems that frequently arise in the applied sciences and emphasizes constructions related to algebraic operations. 1956 edition.
Author : C. D. Olds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780883856437
A self-contained introduction to the geometry of numbers.
Author : Vicente Cortés
Publisher : Springer
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3030011267
This book consists of two lecture notes on geometric flow equations (O. Schnürer) and Lorentzian geometry - holonomy, spinors and Cauchy Problems (H. Baum and T. Leistner) written by leading experts in these fields. It grew out of the summer school “Geometric flows and the geometry of space-time” held in Hamburg (2016) and provides an excellent introduction for students of mathematics and theoretical physics to important themes of current research in global analysis, differential geometry and mathematical physics
Author : Andreĭ Petrovich Kiselev
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
This volume completes the English adaptation of a classical Russian textbook in elementary Euclidean geometry. The 1st volume subtitled "Book I. Planimetry" was published in 2006 (ISBN 0977985202). This 2nd volume (Book II. Stereometry) covers solid geometry, and contains a chapter on vectors, foundations, and introduction in non-Euclidean geometry added by the translator. The book intended for high-school and college students, and their teachers. Includes 317 exercises, index, and bibliography.