The Art of Science From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness /

Like linear perspective, complex numbers and probability are notable discoveries of the Renaissance. History has been quick to recognize the crucial impact of linear perspective on painting, but reluctant to acknowledge the importance of complex numbers and probability. Both were treated with a grea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lupacchini, Rossella (Editor ), Angelini, Annarita (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Temas:
Mathematics.
Arts.
Architecture-Mathematics.
Physics-Philosophy.
History.
Cultural property.
Science-Philosophy.
Quantum physics.
Mathematics in Art and Architecture.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
Cultural Heritage.
Philosophy of Science.
Quantum Physics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Perspective Drawing to the Eighth Dimension
  • Seeing Reality in Perspective: The "Art of Optics" and the "Science of Painting"
  • The Role of Perspective in the Transformation of European Culture
  • Visual Differential Geometry and Beltrami's Hyperbolic Plane.- All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras
  • Artists & Gamblers on the Way to Quantum Physics
  • Radices Sophisticae, Racines Imaginaires: The Origins of Complex Numbers in the Late Renaissance
  • Random, Complex, and Quantum.

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