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Beyond measure : a guided tour through nature, myth, and number /
This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cultural contexts and in nature: the ancient musical scale, proportion in architecture, ancient geometry, megalithic stone circles, the hidden pavements of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific,
©2002.
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| Colección: | K & E series on knots and everything ;
v. 28. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cultural contexts and in nature: the ancient musical scale, proportion in architecture, ancient geometry, megalithic stone circles, the hidden pavements of the Laurentian library, the shapes of the Hebrew letters, and the shapes of biological forms. The focus is on how certain numbers, such as the golden and silver means, present themselves within these systems. Part II shows how many of the same numbers and number sequences are related to the modern mathematical study of numbers, dynamical systems, chaos, and fractals. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxx, 582 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-576) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789812778444 9812778446 9789810247010 981024701X 9789810247027 9810247028 |