Book
Mathematical impressions / Anatoliĭ T. Fomenko with the writing assistance of Richard Lipkin.
Record details
- ISBN: 0821801627 (alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 9780821801628 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 184 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Publisher: Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, c1990.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
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| Subject: | Fomenko, A. T. > Catalogs. Art > Mathematics > Catalogs. |
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Summary
Mathematical Impressions
Anatolii Fomenko is a Soviet mathematician with a talent for expressing abstract mathematical concepts through artwork. Some of his works echo those of M. C. Escher in their meticulous rendering of shapes and patterns, while other pieces seem to be more visceral expressions of mathematical ideas. Stimulating to the imagination and to the eye, his rich and evocative work can be interpreted and appreciated in various ways - mathematical, aesthetic, or emotional. This book contains 84 reproductions of works by Fomenko, 23 of them in colour. In the accompanying captions, Fomenko explains the mathematical motivation behind the illustrations as well as the emotional, historical, or mythical subtexts that they evoke. The illustrations carry the viewer through a mathematical world consisting not of equations and dry logic, but of intuition and inspiration.
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