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
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 *
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 *
Christopher
Chippendale *
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
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)
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 *
Julian
Havil *Gamma. Exploring Euler's constant.
Stephen Hawking and
Roger Penrose * The nature of Space and Time
J. L. Heilbron *Geometry Civilized
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.
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)
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
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
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.
Karl Sabbagh *Riemann Hypothesis
Lionel Salem *The Most Beautiful
Mathematical Formulas
Doris Schattschneider *M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry
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
William Simon *Mathematical Magic
Simon Singh *The Code Book
*Fermat's enigma. The epic quest to solve the world's
greatest mathematical problem.
C. P. Snow *The Two Cultures *The
Physicists
Alexei Sossinsky *Knots: mathematics with a twist
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 *
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
A. Zee *Fearful Symmetry (The search for beauty in modern physics)