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Fractal worlds : grown, built, and imagined / by Frame, Michael,author.; Urry, Amelia,1991-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-489) and index.Fractal geometry is a uniquely fascinating area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a majestic mountain range. In this essential primer, mathematician Michael Frame-a close collaborator with Benoit Mandelbrot, the founder of fractal geometry-and poet Amelia Urry explore the amazing world of fractals as they appear in nature, art, medicine, and technology. Frame and Urry offer new insights into such familiar topics as measuring fractal complexity by dimension and the life and work of Mandelbrot. In addition, they delve into less-known areas: fractals with memory, the Mandelbrot set in four dimensions, fractals in literature, and more. An inviting introduction to an enthralling subject, this comprehensive volume is ideal for learning and teaching.
Subjects: Mandelbrot, Benoit B.; Fractals.; Mathematical analysis.;
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Origami : identifying right angles in geometric figures / by Linde, Barbara M.,author.(DLC)n 2002155931;
Origami and right angles -- The history of origami -- A tower -- A frog -- A fish -- An airplane -- An origami crafter.Explains the concept of right angles using the classic folded-paper art of origami, and provides directions for making several origami forms.
Subjects: Right angle; Origami; Right angle.; Geometry.; Origami.;
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The annotated Mona Lisa : a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern / by Strickland, Carol.(CARDINAL)371838; Boswell, John,1945-author; Andrews and McMeel,publisher.;
Art nouveau -- Birth of photography -- Impressionism : let there be color and light -- Rodin : first modern sculptor -- Post-impressionism -- Early expressionism -- Symbolism -- The birth of modern architecture -- The twentieth century : modern art. Fauvism : exploding color -- Twentieth-century sculpture : a new look -- Twin titans of the twentieth century : Matisse and Picasso -- Cubism -- Modernism outside of France -- Futurism -- Constructivism -- Precisionism -- Expressionism -- Mondrian : harmony of opposites -- Modernist architecture : geometry to live in -- Dada and surrealism : art between the wars.Photography comes of age -- American art : 1908-40 -- Abstract expressionism -- Figural expressionism : not just a pretty face -- Post-war sculpture -- Color field -- The twentieth century and beyond : contemporary art. Hard edge -- Pre-pop art -- Pop art -- Minimalism : the cool school -- Conceptual art : invisible visual art -- Contemporary architecture -- Photography : what's new -- Photo-realism -- Neo-expressionism -- The new breed : post-modern art.The birth of art : prehistoric through medieval. Prehistoric art : the beginning -- Mesopotamia : the architects -- Egypt : the art of imortality -- Greece : they invented a lot more than the Olympics -- Rome : the organizers -- Pre-Columbian art of the Americas : new world art when it was still an old world -- African art : the first cubists -- The middle ages : the reign of religion -- Golden age of byzantine art -- Romanesque art : stories in stone -- Gothic art : height and light -- The rebirth of art : renaissance and baroque -- The renaissance : the beginning of modern painting -- The Italian renaissance -- The northern renaissance.The renaissance in the low countries -- The German renaissance -- Mannerism and the late renaissance -- The Spanish renaissance -- Baroque : the ornate age. -- Italian baroque -- Flemish baroque -- Dutch baroque -- English baroque -- Spanish baroque -- French baroque -- Rococo -- The nineteenth century : birth of the "isms." Neoclassicism : roman fever -- French neoclassicism -- American neoclassicism -- Goya : man with an "ism" -- Romanticism : the power of passion -- French romanticism -- English romanticism -- American romanticism and genre painting -- Realism. French realism -- American realism -- Architecture for the industrial age.The Annotated Mona Lisa takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks to a world of dynamic design, succinct page-length essays, and instructive sidebars. These graphic device heighten the reader's ability to retain an impressive amount of information, even through a cursory reading. A brief run-through of the book's captions and sidebars provides a mini crash course in art history. Incorportating more than 300 illustrations drawing on the very elements of art-composition, movment, balance, color, and design-to achieve a visual and textual approach to the subject that no ordinary book could aproximate.
Subjects: Outlines and syllabi.; Art; Art;
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James Turrell : Geometrie des Lichts / by Turrell, James.(CARDINAL)155857; Sinnreich, Ursula.(CARDINAL)339092; Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna.(CARDINAL)339091;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119).Vorwort = Foreword / Axel Sedlack -- Zwischen Himmel und Erde = Between heaven and earth / Ursula Sinnreich -- Außerirdische Klausur = Alien exam / Julian Heynen -- Phänomenologie des Lichts = Phenomenology of light / Gernot Böhme -- Stationen eines Forschungsprojekts: zur Entstehung des virtuellen Modells von James Turrells Roden Crater Project = Journal of a research project: the digital reconstruction of James Turrell's Roden Crater Project / Agostino de Rosa -- Roden Crater interactive = Roden Crater interactive / Gerhard Buurmann, Christian Weber, Max Rheiner -- Biografie = Biography.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Turrell, James; Light in art;
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Math made simple : a complete guide in ten easy lessons / by Luckett, Kate,author.;
Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 220-223).Give your math skills a boost with this interactive study guide to simple calculations through to more complex topics. Discover shapes and geometry, explore different formulas in algebra, and learn how to present data through step-by-step explanations and informative diagrams. Find out how math can be useful in science, art, nature, and more. After you learn about key mathematical concepts, you'll be able to test your knowledge with a quiz at the end of each chapter. Math Made Simple is the perfect guide for even the most math-shy learner.Ages 15-18
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Study guides.; Problems and exercises.; Young adult literature.; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics;
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The path of freemasonry : the craft as a spiritual practice / by Stavish, Mark,1964-author.(CARDINAL)482537;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-245) and index.How To Use This Book -- What is Freemasonry? -- The Temple of Solomon and the Legend of Hiram Abiff -- Masonic Initiation and Blue Lodge -- The World View of the Renaissance: The World is Alive and Magic is Afoot -- Sacred Geometry, Gothic Cathedrals, and the Hermetic Arts in Stone -- The Lost Word and the Masonic Quest -- Scottish Rite and the Rise of Esoteric Freemasonry -- Occult Masonry in the 18th Century -- York Rite and the Survival of the Knights Templar -- Freemasonry and the European Occult Revival -- Modern Masonry: Much Ado About Nothing, Or the Revival of the Craft."A practical guide to the symbols and rituals of Freemasonry as a path of spiritual development and self-realization"--
Subjects: Freemasonry; Freemasonry; Freemasonry; Freemasonry;
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Florence and Baghdad : Renaissance art and Arab science / by Belting, Hans.(CARDINAL)161969;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Describing a Culture: Blickwechsel (Shifting Focus / Exchanging Glances) -- Pt.1. Perspective as a Question of Images: Paths between East and West -- What Is a Symbolic Form? -- Arab Mathematics and Western Art -- Geometry and Decorative Art: The Arabesque -- The Globalization of Perspective -- Blickwechsel: Orhan Pamuk and Perspective as a "Betrayal" -- Pt.2. The Taming of the Eye: Criticism of Seeing in Islam -- Religion and the Prohibition of Images -- Images as a Betrayal of the Living Creation -- The Koran as Scripture and Script -- Under the Gaze of Allah: Pictures as Narrative -- Blickwechsel: Pictures with a Living Gaze -- Pt.3. Alhazen's Measurement of Light and the Arab Invention of the Camera Obscura -- Alhazen's Book of Optics, the Perspectiva -- Distance from Ancient Visual Culture -- Pathways of Light and Properties of Objects -- Mathematics and Geometry in Islamic Art -- Blickwechsel: Kepler Rediscovers the Camera Obscura -- Pt.4. Perception and Knowledge: A Theory of Vision Becomes a Theory of Pictures -- Scholasticism and the Conflict over Perception and Epistemology -- Before Perspective: The Gaze in Giotto's Painting -- Pelacani's Invention of Mathematical Space -- Ghiberti's Commentaries and Piero's Mathematical Art -- Blickwechsel: Alhazen or Euclid? The Option for Vitruvius -- Pt.5. Brunelleschi Measures the Glaze: Mathematical Perspective and Theater -- Two Inventors in Florence -- Physical Space: The Architecture of the Gaze -- "Prospects" on the Stage -- Panoramas in Urbino -- Blickwechsel: The Geometry of the Muqarnas -- Pt.6. The Subject in the Picture: Perspective as a Symbolic Form -- Stealing an Emblem: The Eye as Representative of the Gaze -- Nicholas of Cusa and the Sovereignty of God's Gaze -- The Subject as New Narcissus -- The Horizon and the View through aWindow -- Blickwechsel: The Mashrabiyya as a Symbolic Form -- Conclusion: Comparing the Gaze in Different Cultures
Subjects: Aesthetics, Comparative.; Art, Renaissance; Optics; Perspective;
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Rose windows / by Cowen, Painton.(CARDINAL)136795; Purce, Jill.(CARDINAL)154428;
Bibliography: page 142.Light into darkness. A present from the past ; A symbol of truth ; Queen of cathedrals -- The making. From wheels to roses and to flames ; The rose in the cathedral ; The glass in the rose -- The meaning. Purification: wisdom (The universe: turning to one ; From time to eternity: wheel and rose ; A key to nature ; Numbers and geometry of creation) ; Illumination: knowledge (The star ; Jewelled light) ; Union: love (The enlightening rose ; The rose and the grail ; The kingdom of the Spirit) -- Divine geometry. Geometrical schemes ; Creation ; Roses for the Queen of Heaven ; Revelation.Photographs and accompanying text describe the history and architectural achievements of various cathedral rose windows in Europe and the United States.
Subjects: Cathedrals.; Rose windows.; Christian art and symbolism.; Glass painting and staining, Medieval.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The amazing world of M.C. Escher / by Escher, M. C.(Maurits Cornelis),1898-1972,artist.(CARDINAL)138460; Piller, Micky,Contributor, "Tessellations in the work of M. C. Escher."(CARDINAL)350028; Elliott, Patrick,1962-Contributor, "Escher,Britain."(CARDINAL)219059; Peterse, Frans,Catalogue contributor.(CARDINAL)350027; National Galleries of Scotland.Trustees,host insitiution.(CARDINAL)218222; Dulwich Picture Gallery.(CARDINAL)157190; Haags Gemeentemuseum,host institution.(CARDINAL)138111; AEGON Verzekeringen,Sponsor.(CARDINAL)350026;
Chronological life of artist pages 140; bibliography page 141; notes and references pages 142-144.The Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) created some of the most celebrated and extraordinary images in twentieth-century art, yet he remains an elusive figure. In the 1960s, when his reputation sky-rocketed, he was championed on the one hand by leading mathematicians who admired his grasp of geometry, and on the other by hippies who claimed him as the godfather of psychedelic art. Rock stars and teenagers were equally amazed by Escher's ingenuity and imagination, yet the art world looked upon him - and still looks upon him - with reserved judgement; in short, his work is ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal. This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition - the largest ever held in the UK - of nearly 100 of Escher's greatest drawings and prints. Based on the world-renowned M.C. Escher collection at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, the Netherlands, it has been organised by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, and tours to the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972,; Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.;
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Brain Quest grade 6 workbook / by Walker, Persephone,author.(CARDINAL)789856; Vernosh, Ryan,editor.;
Jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises, and games in every subject, Brain Quest Grade 6 Workbook reinforces what kids are learning in the classroom. Includes language arts, word searches, maps, multiplication and division, story problems, geometry, graphs, algebra, brain boxes, and much more.--Back cover.
Subjects: Sixth grade (Education);
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