The Architecture of Modern Mathematics
Title | The Architecture of Modern Mathematics PDF eBook |
Author | José Ferreirós Domínguez |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 455 |
Release | 2006-04-27 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0198567936 |
Aimed at both students and researchers in philosophy, mathematics and the history of science, this edited volume, authored by leading scholars, highlights foremost developments in both the philosophy and history of modern mathematics.
The Architecture of Modern Mathematics
Title | The Architecture of Modern Mathematics PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Gray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN |
Concepts of Modern Mathematics
Title | Concepts of Modern Mathematics PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Stewart |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2012-05-23 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0486134954 |
In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts of groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and other mathematical subjects. 200 illustrations.
Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
Title | Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Corinna Rossi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2004-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1107320518 |
In this fascinating study, architect and Egyptologist Corinna Rossi analyses the relationship between mathematics and architecture in ancient Egypt by exploring the use of numbers and geometrical figures in ancient architectural projects and buildings. While previous architectural studies have searched for abstract 'universal rules' to explain the history of Egyptian architecture, Rossi attempts to reconcile the different approaches of archaeologists, architects and historians of mathematics into a single coherent picture. Using a study of a specific group of monuments, the pyramids, and placing them in the context of their cultural and historical background, Rossi argues that theory and practice of construction must be considered as a continuum, not as two separated fields, in order to allow the original planning process of a building to re-emerge. Highly illustrated with plans, diagrams and figures, this book is essential reading for all scholars of Ancient Egypt and the architecture of ancient cultures.
The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays
Title | The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Rowe |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1982-09-14 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262680370 |
This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.
New Mathematics of Architecture
Title | New Mathematics of Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Burry |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0500290253 |
This carefully researched survey examines how architects now use digital tools and physics to build spatial constructs that would have been inconceivable even ten years ago. Architecture has always relied on mathematics to achieve visual harmony, structural integrity, and logical construction. Now digital tools and an increasing interest in physics have given architects the means to describe and build spatial constructs that would have been inconceivable even ten years ago. This carefully researched survey of forty-six international projects offers an overview of how different strategies are being employed through accessible illustrations and clear text. Each section presents case studies of projects by globally recognized architects in diagrams, photographs, and texts.
Formulations
Title | Formulations PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Witt |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2022-01-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0262543001 |
An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century. In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history, but rather architecture’s encounters with a range of calculational systems—techniques that architects inventively retooled for design. Witt offers a catalog of mid-twentieth-century practices of mathematical drawing and calculation in design that preceded and anticipated digitization as well as an account of the formal compendia that became a cultural currency shared between modern mathematicians and modern architects. Witt presents a series of extensively illustrated “biographies of method”—episodes that chart the myriad ways in which mathematics, particularly the mathematical notion of modeling and drawing, was spliced into the creative practice of design. These include early drawing machines that mechanized curvature; the incorporation of geometric maquettes—“theorems made flesh”—into the toolbox of design; the virtualization of buildings and landscapes through surveyed triangulation and photogrammetry; formal and functional topology; stereoscopic drawing; the economic implications of cubic matrices; and a strange synthesis of the technological, mineral, and biological: crystallographic design. Trained in both architecture and mathematics, Witt uses mathematics as a lens through which to understand the relationship between architecture and a much broader set of sciences and visual techniques. Through an intercultural exchange with other disciplines, he argues, architecture adapted not only the shapes and surfaces of mathematics but also its values and epistemic ideals.