Beyond Measure: A Guided Tour Through Nature, Myth And Number
by
Jay Kappraff
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Series on Knots & Everything
ISBN-10
981024701X
ISBN-13
9789810247010
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of Manufacture
SG
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 18th, 2002
Print length
616 Pages
Product Classification:
Popular mathematics
Ksh 22,300.00
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A collection of essays that stand on their own but are also connected. Part I examines how numbers and geometry arise in nature and several cultural contexts. Part II shows how many of the same numbers and number sequences are related to the study of numbers, dynamical systems, chaos and fractals.
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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