Honors 229P

Mathematics and Art

Fall 2005

 

 

 

Books

 

Josef Albers *Interaction of color

G.L. Alexanderson *Mathematical People * More Mathematical People

Marcia Ascher  *Mathematics Elsewhere *Mathematics of the Incas * Ethnomathematics

Gaston Bachelard *The poetics of space

A.K. Bag *Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India

Thomas Banchoff *Beyond the Third Dimension

Maurice Bazin *Mathematics across Cultures

E.T. Bell *Men of Mathematics * Mathematics (Queen and Servant of Science) * The Development of Mathematics * The Magic of Numbers

John Berger  *Ways of seeing *Sense of sight *About looking

David Berlinski *The Advent of the Algorithm *Newton¡¯s Gift

J. Bourgoin *Arabic Geometrical Pattern  and Design

Bryan Bunch *Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes *Reality¡¯s mirror: the mathematics of symmetry *The kingdom of infinite number. A field guide

Lewis Carroll *Through the Looking-Glass * Euclid and his modern rivals

John L. Casti *Complexification, Five Golden Rules

Bernard Chaet *The art of drawing *An Artist¡¯s notebook

Gregory L. Chaitin *Conversations with a mathematician. Math, art, science and the limits of reason.

Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar *Truth and Beauty:Aesthetics and Motivations in Science * Newton's Principia for the common reader

Christopher Chippendale *Stonehenge Complete

Barry Cipra *What¡¯s happening in the Mathematical Sciences

Calvin Clawson *Mathematical sorcery. Revealing the secrets of numbers *Mathematical mysteries. The beauty and magic of numbers *The mathematical traveler. Exploring the grand history of numbers.

K. C. Cole *The Universe and the Teacup: The mathematics of truth and beauty * Sympathetic Vibrations

Alain Connes *Triangle of thoughts * Conversations on mind, matter, and mathematics

Aaron Copland *What to listen for in Music *Music and Imagination

H.S.M. Coxeter *The beauty of geometry. Non-Euclidean geometry * (editor) Twelve essays. M. C. Escher: art and science. Proceedings of the International Congress on M. C. Escher held at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, March 1985.

Richard Courant and H. Robbins *What is Mathematics?

David Darling *Equations of Eternity

Philip J. Davis and Rueben Hersch *The Mathematical Experience

Keith Devlin *Mathematics: the Golden Age * Mathematics: the Science of Patterns *The millennium problems. The seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time. * The math gene. How mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip. * The language of mathematics.* Making the invisible visible.* Goodbye, Descartes. The end of logic and the search for a new cosmology of the mind. * All the math that's fit to print.

A.K. Dewdney *The planiverse. Computer contact with a two-dimensional world. * A mathematical mystery tour. Discovering the truth and beauty of the cosmos.

P.A.M. Dirac *Directions in physics.

Marcus du Sautoy *Music of the Primes

William Dunham *Journey Through Genius (The great theorems in mathematics)

Freeman Dyson *Infinite in all directions

Albert Einstein * Ideas and opinions

Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld *The Evolution of Physics

James Elkins *How to use your eyes? *Pictures and Tears *What painting is *Stories of art *Courses(Alchemy and Art, Relationship between Art and Science,and so on)

M.C. Escher

Richard Feynman *The character of physical law.

Graham Flegg *Numbers. Their history and meaning. *Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance mathematician.

George Gamow *One Two Three ¡­ Infinity * The adventures of Mr. Tompkins

E. H. Gombrich *Art and Illusion:A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation *The Story of Art * Meditations on a Hobby Horse: And Other Essays on the Theory of Art * Critical Thinking Skills * Norm and Form *New light on old masters * Ideals and Idols: Essays on Values in History and in Art * The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

Marvin J. Greenberg *Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries

Michael Guillen *Bridges to Infinity, Five Equations that changed the world

Jan Gullberg * Mathematics: from the birth of numbers.

Jacques Hadamard *The mathematician's mind. The psychology of invention in the mathematical field.

G. H. Hardy *A Mathematician¡¯s Apology

Robin Hartshorne *Euclid

Julian Havil *Gamma. Exploring Euler's constant.

Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose * The nature of Space and Time

J. L. Heilbron *Geometry Civilized

Werner Heisenberg *Physics and Philosophy *Physics and Beyond *Tradition in Science

Roger Herz-Fischler *The shape of the Great Pyramid. *A mathematical history of the golden number.

Hermann Hesse *Magister Ludi: the glass bead game

Peter Higgins *Curiosities and strangenesses of the world of numbers

David Hilbert *Geometry and the Imagination

Paul Hoffman *Archimedes' revenge. The joys and perils of mathematics. *The man who loved only numbers. The story of Paul Erdös and the search for mathematical truth.

Douglas Hofstadter * Godel Escher Bach *Fluid concepts and Creative Analogies *Metamagical Themas

Georges Ifrah  *Universal History of Numbers *Universal History of Computing

Ioan James *Remarkable mathematicians. From Euler to von Neumann.

George Gheverghese Joseph *The Crest of the Peacock: The Non-European Roots of Mathematics

Robert Kanigel *The Man who knew infinity (Ramanujan)

Robert and Ellen Kaplan *The art of the infinite. The pleasures of mathematics. *The nothing that is. A natural history of zero.

Jay Kappraff *Connections, the geometric bridge between art and science  (article)

Johannes Kepler *Harmonice Mundi, *The six-cornered snowflake  *Somnium   *Astronomia Nova *Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae  *Mysterium Cosmographicum

Morris Kline *Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times * Mathematics and the physical world *Mathematics and the search for knowledge

Stephan Korner *The philosophy of mathematics

George Lakoff  *Where math comes from

Serge Lang *The beauty of doing mathematics: Three public dialogues

LIFE Science Library  Mathematics

Miranda Lundy *Sacred Geometry: Wooden books

Barry Mazur *Imagining numbers (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen)

Karl Menninger *Number words and number symbols

Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison *Powers of Ten

Lloyd Motz  *Unfolding Universe: A Stellar Journey *The Concepts of Science: From Newton to Einstein *Story of Mathematics

James R. Newman *The World of Mathematics (4 vols)

Robert Osserman *Poetry of the Universe

Theoni Pappas *The Adventures of Penrose - The Mathematical Cat *The Joy of Mathematics *The Music of Reason: Experience the Beauty of Mathematics Through Quotations

Carolyn Parikh *The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski

Walter Pater  *The Renaissance: studies in Art and Poetry  *Plato and Platonism *Marius the Epicurean

Daniel Pedoe *Geometry and the liberal arts *Circles. A mathematical view. *Japanese temple geometry problems. San

  gaku. [Devotional mathematical tablets] *The gentle art of mathematics.

Roger Penrose *The large, the small and the human mind. *Shadows of the mind. A search for the missing science of

consciousness. *The emperor's new mind. Concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics.

Ivars Peterson *Mathematical treks. From surreal numbers to magic circles. *Fragments of infinity. A kaleidoscope of math and art. *The mathematical tourist. New and updated snapshots of modern mathematics. * The jungles of randomness. A mathematical safari. *Islands of truth. A mathematical mystery cruise.

Clifford Pickover *The mathematics of Oz. Mental gymnastics from beyond the edge. *The zen of magic squares, circles, and stars. An exhibition of surprising structures across dimensions. *Wonder of numbers. Adventures in mathematics, mind, and meaning. *Surfing through hyperspace. Understanding higher universes in six easy lessons. *The loom of God. Mathematical tapestries at the edge of time.

Henri Poincare *Science and Hypothesis

Albert Rothenberg *Symmetry in Art and Science

Joe Rosen *Symmetry discovered. Concepts and applications in nature and science.

Rudy Rucker *Infinity and the mind *Geometry, relativity and the fourth dimension

Karl Sabbagh *Riemann Hypothesis

Lionel Salem  *The Most Beautiful Mathematical Formulas

Doris Schattschneider *M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry

Arnold Schoenberg *The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation *Arnold Schoenberg-Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and Documents *Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

Erwin Schrodinger *Nature and the Greeks *Science and the human temperament *What is life?

Charles Seife *Zero The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.

Ben Shahn *The shape of contents

Leonard Shlain *Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light *The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image

William Simon  *Mathematical Magic

Simon Singh *The Code Book *Fermat's enigma. The epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem.

David Eugene Smith *The poetry of mathematics and other essays

C. P. Snow *The Two Cultures *The Physicists

Alexei Sossinsky *Knots: mathematics with a twist

Sherman Stein *Archimedes. What did he do besides cry Eureka? *Algebra and tiling. Homomorphisms in the

  service of geometry.

Peter Stevens *Patterns in nature

Ian Stewart *Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? *Problems of Mathematics *Does God play dice?  * Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So *The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions  *What Shape Is a Snowflake?: Magical Numbers in Nature *Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind *The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes  *Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World  *Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematical Imagination  *From Here to Infinity

Tom Stoppard *Arcadia *Squaring the Circle *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead *Artist descending a staircase

Lewis Thomas *Late night thoughts on listening to Mahler¡¯s ninth symphony

D¡¯Arcy Thompson *On Growth and Form

Hermann Weyl *Symmetry *Mind and Nature *Philosophy of mathematics and natural science

Sir E. Whittaker *From Euclid to Eddington

A. Zee *Fearful Symmetry (The search for beauty in modern physics)