Synopsis
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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