Beyond Measure A Guided Tour Through Nature, Myth, and Number |
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| Author:
| Kappraff, Jay |
| Series title: | Series on Knots and Everything |
| ISBN: | 978-981-02-4701-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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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: 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. Part II shows how many of the same numbers and number sequences are related to the modern mathematical study of...
More DescriptionThis 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: 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. 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.