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The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

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ルネサンス期の画家などの職人たちは、「実用数学」の教育を受けていた。本書では、職人の伝統が芸術のみならず「正しい」数学にいかに重要な貢献をしたかを論じる。1300年から1650年までの時代を網羅し、新しい幾何学-射影幾何学-が、芸術家たちの遠近法の数学の文脈の中で出現した。美しい芸術作品と有名な定理が、両者をより明確に理解し、より楽しむことにつながる方法で結びつけられている。

Renaissance craftsmen, such as painters, were educated in `practical mathematics'. How the artisan tradition made important contributions not only to art but also to `proper' mathematics is discussed in this book. Covering the period from 1300 to 1650,  a new form of geometry - projective geometry - emerged in the context of the artists' mathematics of perspective.Beautiful works of art and famous theorems are linked together in a way that leads to a clearer understanding and greater enjoyment of both.

Judith Veronica Field

Oxford University Press
1997
19.69 x 2.54 x 26.67 cm
250 pages

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