Imagine Math 8
Dreaming Venice
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Sulla Mathematica, an exhibition with Italian artist Mimmo Paladino’ works opened in March 2019 in Palazzo Loredan in Venice, location of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti IVSLA, on the occasion of...
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One of the great masterpieces of Palladio is the Villa Malcontenta on the banks of the river Brenta, which highlights the Palladio’s choice of harmonies that follow mathematical rules. And it is the mathematical ...
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It is worth noting that words like dream, creativity, imagination often appear when mathematicians think about their activity. The Mathematics and Culture conference was conceived in Venice, not by chance. I inve...
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Sir Roger Penrose was awarded the 2020 Physics Nobel Prize at the age of 90 for his research on the black holes of the universe, which he had initiated many decades earlier. Penrose’s insights and creativity s...
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Poincaré’s research on topology and Riemann’s research on non-Euclidean geometry, and the publication in 1947 of Coxeter’s book on polytopes had aroused the interest of an Italian painter living in the USA Cor...
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I was a professor at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice for 7 years. I had my studio in the Ca' Dolfin palace, famous for the 10 canvases by Gianbattista Tiepolo which are currently at the Metropolitan Museum i...
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On March 16, 2019, a large exhibition on soap bubbles in art and science opened in Palazzo dei Priori, home of the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia, Italy. Marco Pierini, the director of the Galleria Naziona...
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The Staatliches Bauhaus or simply Bauhaus (building house) was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. The opening date is considered April 1, 1919. One hundred years later the meeting of Mathemati...
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In a 2016 article I wrote a short history of the recent films on mathematicians until 2015. The paper was published by the title Cinema and Mathematics: Recent Developments [M. Emmer (Imagine Math 5. IVSLA & UMI,...
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This is the introduction to the book.
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This text comments the surprising Éloge des Mathématiques, contained in Les Chants de Maldoror, written from 1868–1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont.
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This chapter describes the influence of topology and of topological thinking on the work of the great architect Zaha Hadid.
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Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. Imagine building mathematical models that make it possible to manage our world better, imagine solving ...
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So wrote the math historian Morris Kline in the book Mathematics in Western Culture [3, p. 150].
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Plateau’s problem consists in taking a generic curve in three-space and finding a surface with the least possible area bounded by that curve. The empirical solution may be obtained by dipping a tridimensional ...
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“The threads’ mode of operation is simple. First, each thread is just a connector between two terms. Although more could have been found in the case of this exhibition, three were identified: Hand to head, Spa...
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The hall of the 1986 Venice Biennale dedicated to Art and Science opened with works by Lucio Saffaro (the artist whose works are featured on all the covers of books in the Imagine Math book series), along with Fe...
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Michele Emmer discusses the relations between soap films, arts, mathematics, visual arts, architecture with very recent examples.
It’s because I don’t do anything, I chatter a lot, you see, it’s...