Beyond Measure: A Guided Tour Through Nature, Myth, and Number - Couverture souple

Kappraff, Jay

 
9789810247027: Beyond Measure: A Guided Tour Through Nature, Myth, and Number
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ISBN 10 : 9810247028 ISBN 13 : 9789810247027
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9810247028
ISBN 13 
9789810247027
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
616
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  981024701X ISBN 13 :  9789810247010
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co P..., 2002
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