American Surfaces
Title | American Surfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Shore |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781838661373 |
Curves and Surfaces
Title | Curves and Surfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastián Montiel |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0821847635 |
Offers a focused point of view on the differential geometry of curves and surfaces. This monograph treats the Gauss - Bonnet theorem and discusses the Euler characteristic. It also covers Alexandrov's theorem on embedded compact surfaces in R3 with constant mean curvature.
Lectures on Surfaces
Title | Lectures on Surfaces PDF eBook |
Author | A. B. Katok |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0821846795 |
Surfaces are among the most common and easily visualized mathematical objects, and their study brings into focus fundamental ideas, concepts, and methods from geometry, topology, complex analysis, Morse theory, and group theory. This book introduces many of the principal actors - the round sphere, flat torus, Mobius strip, and Klein bottle.
Uncommon Places
Title | Uncommon Places PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Shore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781597113038 |
"Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition over the past forty years. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, published by Aperture in 2004, presents a definitive collection of the landmark series, and in the span of a decade, has become a contemporary classic. Now, for this lushly produced reissue, the artist has added twenty rediscovered images and a statement explaining what it means to expand a series now many decades old. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore in these images retains precise internal systems of gestures in composition and light, through which a parking lot emptied of people, a hotel bedroom, or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. In contrast to his signature landscapes with which Uncommon Places is often associated, this expanded survey reveals equally remarkable collections of interiors and portraits." -- Publisher's description.
Mostly Surfaces
Title | Mostly Surfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Evan Schwartz |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0821853686 |
The goal of the book is to present a tapestry of ideas from various areas of mathematics in a clear and rigorous yet informal and friendly way. Prerequisites include undergraduate courses in real analysis and in linear algebra, and some knowledge of complex analysis. --from publisher description.
Surfaces with Constant Mean Curvature
Title | Surfaces with Constant Mean Curvature PDF eBook |
Author | Katsuei Kenmotsu |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780821834794 |
The mean curvature of a surface is an extrinsic parameter measuring how the surface is curved in the three-dimensional space. A surface whose mean curvature is zero at each point is a minimal surface, and it is known that such surfaces are models for soap film. There is a rich and well-known theory of minimal surfaces. A surface whose mean curvature is constant but nonzero is obtained when we try to minimize the area of a closed surface without changing the volume it encloses. An easy example of a surface of constant mean curvature is the sphere. A nontrivial example is provided by the constant curvature torus, whose discovery in 1984 gave a powerful incentive for studying such surfaces. Later, many examples of constant mean curvature surfaces were discovered using various methods of analysis, differential geometry, and differential equations. It is now becoming clear that there is a rich theory of surfaces of constant mean curvature. In this book, the author presents numerous examples of constant mean curvature surfaces and techniques for studying them. Many finely rendered figures illustrate the results and allow the reader to visualize and better understand these beautiful objects. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and research mathematicians interested in analysis and differential geometry.
Transparencies
Title | Transparencies PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Shore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2020-03-05 |
Genre | Photography, Artistic |
ISBN | 9781912339709 |
'Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979' offers an alternative account of one of the most fabled episodes in photographic history: the cross-country journeys that produced Stephen Shore's luminous new vision of the American landscape, 'Uncommon Places'. Along with his large-format camera, Shore also brought a 35mm Leica on his travels. The images made with it, on luminous colour slide film, are intimate, spontaneous and personal, while retaining Shore's studied formal sensitivity. In these entirely unseen photographs, a parallel iteration of an iconic vision emerges like a piece of music played in a new key. The vocabulary is familiar: highways and homes, phone boxes, fast food and sun-strewn parking lots. But the alternative format unmistakably re-envisions these subjects through distinct experiments with composition, attitude, and colour. Transparencies uncovers both a detail-oriented survey of the American landscape of the 1970s and a rigorous, imaginative exercise in form by an undisputed modern master. With an afterword by Britt Salvesen, curator at LACMA, titled 'Ordinary Speech: The Vernacular in Stephen Shore's Early 35mm Photography'.