Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach - Couverture rigide

Livre 2 sur 4: Mathematics and the Built Environment

Wichmann, Brian; Wade, David

 
9783319699769: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach

Synopsis

Only school-level geometry required
Provides new ways of analysing Islamic Geometric ornament
Shows development and geographical range of the art

Combines historical and mathematical study of Islamic art

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Wichmann is the author of a CD/booklet published by World Scientific on geometric patterns. He obtained a DPhil (Oxon) in Mathematics, then had a career in software engineering research at NPL before starting a retirement project of collecting all known classical Islamic geometric patterns. The collection is at tilingsearch.org.

David Wade is the author of a number of books about Islamic Art and related topics. He is also responsible for the web site patterninislamicart.com which has over 4,000 photographs of patterns in Islamic Art. This is a major source of photographs for the book.

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9783030099237: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  3030099237 ISBN 13 :  9783030099237
Editeur : Birkhäuser, 2020
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