Mathematics + Art: A Cultural History

by Lynn Gamwell

Book Overview

A cultural history of the links between mathematics and art, from antiquity to today

This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691165289
• ISBN13: 9780691165288
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 6.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 9.5" x 12.1"