M. Manaresi (ed.)

Mathematics and Culture in Europe

Mathematics in Art, Technology, Cinema, and Theatre
Herausgegeben:Manaresi, M.

• Audio CD mit DVD

Produktbeschreibung

It is not true that mathematics has never been able to arouse people's interest. At least, this is our feeling as mathematicians when we meet the general public to explain what we are dealing with in our work, what is the usefulness of mathematics and how it becomes possible to catch its harmony and beauty.

Also the cinema changed its attitude on the matter, and some screenplays started to show mathematicians engaged in their work while some recent theatrical pieces have a mathematician as a main character.

These considerations stimulated some of us to organize the review Mathematics and Theatre, which offered to a general audience the opportunity to attend performances and, at the same time, to hear something about prime numbers, Galois' theory, or simply about the relationship between science, mathematics and power at Napoleon's times.

This volume, which has its origin in the activities performed in Bologna in 2004, is dedicated to all those who are curious about mathematics, but also more generally about theatre, cinema, literature, arts and science.

Thanks to the DVD one can relive various events through the voices and the images of the participants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer Milano / Springer, Berlin
• Originaltitel: Matematica e cultura in Europa
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-71963-2
• Seitenzahl: 405
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 15mm x 156mm x 236mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9783540719632
• ISBN-10: 3540719636
• Artikelnr.: 22917173

Autorenporträt

M. Manaresi, University of Bologna, Italy

Inhaltsangabe

Mathematical culture, education and media.- Are European students sufficiently prepared in mathematics? - Questionnaire results.- Statistical methods for measuring competencies: analysis of mathematical preparation of freshmen.- Mathematics and media: tools, expectations, results.- The Trouble with Mathematics in the UK.- Metamorph from Escher to virtual architecture.- Two examples of unbounded and compact triply extended spaces.- Bringing light to a dark Universe.- Mathematics and cartoons.- Painters, Murderers, Mathematicians.- Lucio Saffaro, artist of geometry.- The mathematical logic of narrative.- Mathematics and Cinema.- A Beautiful Mind.- A recurrent eponym: Nash and game theory.- The Bank.- The Bank: Mathematics, Economics and Social Responsibility for the new millennium.- Moebius.- Moebius: a film and an invitation to topology.- Cube.- Cube: an opportunity to talk about prime numbers.- The Mirror Has Two Faces.- Funny mathematics?.- Enigma.- Fermat's Last Theorem.- A few reflections on Fermat's Last Theorem.- No More Time.- Mathematics and Theatre.- The Logic of Theater.- Napoleon Magical Emperor.- Regarding Napoleon Magical Emperor.- Napoleon, mathematics and the École Polytechnique.- Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture.- Uncle Petros between science, literature and the theatre.- Some famous problems in the History of Number Theory.- Proof.- Proof: Mathematics and New Dramaturgy.- Mathematics and the American Theater Tradition.- A mathematician reads Proof.- Galois.- Évariste Galois, a Tragic Romantic Hero.- Évariste Galois.- Arcadia.- Even in Arcadia sex, literature and...? mathematics.- Wilde in Arcadia.- Father Saccheri: a mathematician on stage.- Is mathematics theatrical?.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:
"Volume contains the proceedings of the eponymous conference Mathematics and Culture in Europe held in Bologna ... . content of the DVD is elegantly presented and easy to navigate, and it works both for PCs and Macs, which is a big plus. ... having collected in a single volume descriptions, explanations, and references ... on several recent and not-so-recent movies and plays about mathematics and mathematicians is definitely helpful, and would justify buying this book to anybody interested in the relationships between mathematics and art." (Marco Abate, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 31 (4), December, 2009)