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Color / by Guasch, Gemma.(CARDINAL)471004; Asunción, Josep.(CARDINAL)673812;
Subjects: Color in art.; Painting;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The joy of thinking [videorecording] : the beauty and power of classical mathematical ideas / by Burger, Edward B.,1963-(CARDINAL)702196; Starbird, Michael.(CARDINAL)733893; Perlmutter, Alvin H.(CARDINAL)684227; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Part 1: Great ideas that bring our world into focus ; How many? Counting surprises ; Fermat's last theorem and the allure of number ; Pining for nature's numbers ; Sizing up the Fibonacci numbers ; Sexiest rectangle ; Hidden beauty of the golden rectangle lecture ; Pythagorean theorem and geography of ellipses ; Not-so-platonic relationships in platonic solids ; Hunting for a sixth platonic solid ; Is there a fourth dimension? Can we see it? ; Invisible art of the fourth dimension -- Part 2: A twisted idea : the Mobius band ; One-sided, sealed surface : the Klein bottle ; Ordinary origami : creating beautiful patterns ; Unfolding paper to reveal a fiery fractal ; Fractals : infinitely complex creations ; Fractal frauds of nature ; Chance surprises : measuring uncertainty ; Door number two or door number three? ; Great expectations--weighing the uncertain future ; Random thoughts : randomness in our world ; How surprising are surprising coincidences? ; Life lessons learned from mathematical thinking.Lecturers: Dr. Edward B. Burger of Williams College and Michael Seabird of University of Texas at Austin.Discover classical mathematics as an artistic and creative realm that contains some of the greatest ideas of human history, ideas that have shaped cultures. Explore the fourth dimension, coincidences, fractals, the allure of number and geometry, in understandable terms. No formulas, problems, equations, techniques and drills that remind us of school, but thinking that opens doors and minds and become an endless frontier of ideas to explore.DVD.
Subjects: Video recordings.; Mathematics.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Stargazing in the atomic age : essays / by Goldman, Anne E.,1960-author.;
During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Many had just fled Europe. Others were born in the United States to immigrants who had escaped Russia's pogroms. Alternately celebrated as mavericks and dismissed as eccentrics, they trespassed the boundaries of their own disciplines as the entrance to nations slammed shut behind them. In Stargazing in the Atomic Age, Anne Goldman interweaves personal and intellectual history in exuberant essays that cast new light on these figures and their virtuosic thinking. In lyric, lucent sentences that dance between biography and memoir as they connect innovation in science with achievement in the arts, Goldman yokes the central dramas of the modern age with the brilliant thinking of earlier eras. Here, Einstein plays Mozart to align mathematical principle with the music of the spheres and Rothko paints canvases whose tonalities echo the stark prose of Genesis. Nearby, Bellow evokes the dirt and dazzle of the Chicago streets, while upon the heels of World War II, Chagall illuminates stained glass no less buoyant than the effervescent notes of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. In these essays, Goldman reminds readers that Jewish history offers as many illustrations of accomplishment as of affliction. At the same time, she gestures toward the ways in which experiments in science and art that defy partisanship can offer us inspiration during a newly divisive era.Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-142).
Subjects: Informational works.; Essays.; Jews; Jews;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The shape of nature [videorecording] / by Devadoss, Satyan L.,1973-; Rhoades, Zachary H.; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Bibliographical references included in course guidebook.Disc 1. Lecture 1. Understanding nature ; Lecture 2. The language of shapes ; Lecture 3. Knots and strings ; Lecture 4. Creating new knots from old ; Lecture 5. DNA entanglement ; Lecture 6. The Jones revolution -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Symmetries of molecules ; Lecture 8. The messy business of tangles and mutations ; Lecture 9. Braids and the language of groups ; Lecture 10. Platonic solids and Euler's masterpiece ; Lecture 11. Surfaces and a new notion of equivalence ; Lecture 12. Reaching boundaries and losing orientations.Disc 3. Lecture 13. Knots and surfaces -- 14. Wind flows and currents -- 15. Curvature and Gauss's geometric gem -- 16. Playing with scissors and polygons -- 17. Bending chains and folding origami -- 18. Cauchy's rigidity and Connelly's flexibility -- Disc 4. Lecture19. Mountain terrains and surface reconstruction -- 20. Voronoi's regions of influence -- 21. Convex hulls and computational conplexity -- 22. Patterns and colors -- 23. Orange stackings and bubble partitions -- 24. The topology of the universe.Disc 5. Lecture 25. Tetrahedra and mathematical surgery -- 26. The fundamental group -- 27. Poincare's question and Perelman's answer -- 28. The geometry of the universe -- 29. Visualizing in higher dimensions -- 30. Polyhedra in higher dimensions -- Disc 6. Lecture 31. Particle motions -- 32. Particle collisions -- 33. Evolutionary trees -- 34. Chaos and fractals -- 35. Reclaiming Leonardo da Vinci -- 36. Pushing the forefront.Lecturer: Professor Satyan L. Devadoss, Williams College.An authoritative guide to the mathematical shapes around us: how they're formed, how they're studied, and how they're applied to our everyday lives. With these lectures presented in three parts you will discover the intricate relationship between mathematics and nature, get a pointed introduction to the language mathematicians use to study shapes and dimensions, and learn how to finally make sense of this abstract intriguing subject.DVD.NTSC.
Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Form perception.; Geometry in nature.; Mathematics in art.; Mathematics in nature.; Pattern perception.; Science; Symmetry (Mathematics);
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The language of trees : a rewilding of literature and landscape / by Holten, Katie,author.(CARDINAL)867108;
Includes bibliographical references."Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new original writing in praise of the natural world. With an introduction from Ross Gay, and featuring writings from over fifty contributors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Limón, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, James Gleick, Elizabeth Kolbert, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holten illustrates each selection with an abiding love and reverence for the magic of trees. She guides readers on a journey from "primeval atoms" and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry, unearthing a new way to see the natural beauty all around us and an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. The Language of Trees considers our relationship with literature and landscape, resulting in an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages"--
Subjects: Literature.; Trees; Forests and forestry; Trees in literature.; Trees in art.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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100 essential things you didn't know you didn't know about math and the arts / by Barrow, John D.,1952-2020,author.(CARDINAL)331265;
Includes bibliographical references."At first glance, the worlds of math and the arts might not seem like comfortable neighbors. But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinity--after all, math is the study of all patterns, and the world of the arts is rich with pattern. Barrow whisks us through 100 thought-provoking and often whimsical intersections between math and many arts, from the golden ratios of Mondrian's rectangles and the curious fractal-like nature of Pollock's drip paintings to ballerinas' gravity-defying leaps and the next generation of monkeys on typewriters tackling Shakespeare"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Arts; Mathematics; Arts;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Chaos : making a new science / by Gleick, James.(CARDINAL)188262;
Bibliography: pages 318-340.1160L
Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Precognitive dreamwork and the long self : interpreting messages from your future / by Wargo, Eric,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-298) and index.Introduction: They dreamed -- Part I: A precog's progress. Unmanned: my psychic due diligence ; Vaal and redemption: how a Star Trek episode taught me memory goes backward ; Psychic citizen science: taking the J. W. Dunne challenge -- Part 2: The law in the mind. The Technicolor elephant: Freud and the art of memory ' Future towers from past bricks: basics of dream precognition ; The unusual suspects of the dreamworld: applying free association and mnemonic theory -- Part 3: Gifts in the landscape. Rules of the grail kingdom: dream space and dream time ; Library angels and scarab beetles: synchronicity, retrocausation, and the tesseract brain ; Beyond archetypes: the fractal geometry of prophecy -- Part 4: The law in the cosmos (on fate and free will). "But I survived": understanding premonitions ; Four-dimensional billiards: time travel and meaning in a self-consistent universe ; The wyrd of Doctor WTF: the real superpowers of the unconscious ; What's expected of us in a block universe: new myths for precogs -- Part 5: The care of the long self. After the miracle: how our thoughts influence our past ; A precog claims her gifts: one woman's life-altering precognitive awakening ; Giants and angels: the precognitive self-care system ; Look back in amber: time gimmicks and dream paleontology -- Part 6: Spacetime travel in the borderlands (games for advanced players). Possessed by your future: out-of-body experiences, lucid dreams, and sleep paralysis ; Liminal precognition: hypnagogia, active imagination, creativity, and meditation -- Conclusion: The long self revolution: a call to action -- Appendix: Precognitive dreamwork principles."A guide for having, identifying, and interpreting precognitive dreams"--
Subjects: Precognition.; Dreams.;
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The artful universe / by Barrow, John D.,1952-2020.(CARDINAL)331265;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
Subjects: Nature (Aesthetics); Philosophy of nature.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Stitching science : exploring science from A-Z / by Wright Vartanian, Lauren,artist.; Thomas, Keltie,1966-author.(CARDINAL)460635;
"Science gets the stitched treatment in this stunning science book from textile artist Lauren Wright Vartanian. During the pandemic, Lauren started stitching an ABC book of science, but it soon became clear that some of the topics she was exploring were too advanced for your average toddler. Out of this was born Stitching Science, a book for any person (young or old) who loves science, art and how the two intersect. Scientific topics ranging from Atom to Zenith come to life at the end of Lauren's skilled needle, and lively and informative text by Keltie Thomas explains key concepts and delivers interesting facts for each subject. Readers will explore topics in physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and more, such as: B is for Black hole, D is for DNA, F is for Fractal and Fibonacci Numbers, O is for Organ, Q is for Quantum, T is for Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs, and W is for Weather. Lauren's meticulous textile artworks are sure to enchant readers, and the art has been expertly scanned to best show the painstaking detail and skill she applied to each panel. Stitching Science is a charming and informative introduction to a wide variety of scientific concepts as well as a beautiful art book from a talented textile artist."--
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Illustrated works.; Alphabet books.; Science; Textile crafts; Art and science; Alphabet books;
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