Author: George AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Geometrical and Graphical Essays
Author: George AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Geometrical and Graphical Essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new practical problems. The third edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, etc
Author: George ADAMS (Mathematical Instrument Maker, the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Geometrical and Graphical Essays, Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling, and Perspective
Author: George AdamsGeometrical and Graphical Essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new practical problems. Illustrated by thirty-four copper plates ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged, etc
Author: George ADAMS (Mathematical Instrument Maker, the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Geometrical and Graphical Essays Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry ... with Many New Practical Problems Illustrated by Thirty Four Copper Plates by the Late George Adams
Author: George AdamsPlates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays
Author: George AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Thirty Essays on Geometric Graph Theory
Author: János PachPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461401100
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
In many applications of graph theory, graphs are regarded as geometric objects drawn in the plane or in some other surface. The traditional methods of "abstract" graph theory are often incapable of providing satisfactory answers to questions arising in such applications. In the past couple of decades, many powerful new combinatorial and topological techniques have been developed to tackle these problems. Today geometric graph theory is a burgeoning field with many striking results and appealing open questions. This contributed volume contains thirty original survey and research papers on important recent developments in geometric graph theory. The contributions were thoroughly reviewed and written by excellent researchers in this field.
Formulations
Author: Andrew WittPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543001
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century. In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history, but rather architecture’s encounters with a range of calculational systems—techniques that architects inventively retooled for design. Witt offers a catalog of mid-twentieth-century practices of mathematical drawing and calculation in design that preceded and anticipated digitization as well as an account of the formal compendia that became a cultural currency shared between modern mathematicians and modern architects. Witt presents a series of extensively illustrated “biographies of method”—episodes that chart the myriad ways in which mathematics, particularly the mathematical notion of modeling and drawing, was spliced into the creative practice of design. These include early drawing machines that mechanized curvature; the incorporation of geometric maquettes—“theorems made flesh”—into the toolbox of design; the virtualization of buildings and landscapes through surveyed triangulation and photogrammetry; formal and functional topology; stereoscopic drawing; the economic implications of cubic matrices; and a strange synthesis of the technological, mineral, and biological: crystallographic design. Trained in both architecture and mathematics, Witt uses mathematics as a lens through which to understand the relationship between architecture and a much broader set of sciences and visual techniques. Through an intercultural exchange with other disciplines, he argues, architecture adapted not only the shapes and surfaces of mathematics but also its values and epistemic ideals.
Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom
Author: Ann C. ColleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009271725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
When Coleridge described the landscapes he passed through while scrambling among the fells, mountains, and valleys of Britain, he did something unprecedented in Romantic writing: to capture what emerged before his eyes, he enlisted a geometric idiom. Immersed in a culture still beholden to Euclid's Elements and schooled by those who subscribed to its principles, he valued geometry both for its pragmatic function and for its role as a conduit to abstract thought. Indeed, his geometric training would often structure his observations on religion, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. For Coleridge, however, this perspective never competed with his sensitivity to the organic nature of his surroundings but, rather, intermingled with it. Situating Coleridge's remarkable ways of seeing within the history and teaching of mathematics and alongside the eighteenth century's budding interest in non-Euclidean geometry, Ann Colley illuminates the richness of the culture of walking and the surprising potential of landscape writing.
Author: Encyclopaedias