Emmer M., Abate M. (Eds.) Imagine Math 6: Between Culture and Mathematics

Springer, 2018. — 317 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-93948-3.Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. Imagine building mathematical models that make it possible to manage our world better, imagine combining music, art, poetry, literature, architecture and cinema with mathematics. Imagine the unpredictable and sometimes counterintuitive applications of mathematics in all areas of human endeavour. Imagination and mathematics, imagination and culture, culture and mathematics.
This sixth volume in the series begins with a homage to the architect Zaha Hadid, who died on March 31st, 2016, a few weeks before the opening of a large exhibition of her works in Palazzo Franchetti in Venice, where all the Mathematics and Culture conferences have taken place in the last years. A large section of the book is dedicated to literature, narrative and mathematics including a contribution from Simon Singh. It discusses the role of media in mathematics, including museums of science, journals and movies. Mathematics and applications, including blood circulation and preventing crimes using earthquakes, is also addressed, while a section on mathematics and art examines the role of math in design. A large selection presents photos of mathematicians and mathematical objects by Vincent Moncorge.
Discussing all topics in a way that is rigorous but captivating, detailed but full of evocations, it offers an all-embracing look at the world of mathematics and culture.ZHA, Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid: Fluid and Topological Architecture
A Mathematician at MUSE, the Science Museum of Trento
To Bring Math to the World, Start with Mathematicians
My Life in the Shape of Maupertuis
From Music to Mathematics and Backwards: Introducing Algebra, Topology and Category Theory into Computational Musicology
Mathematics and Labyrinths in Twentieth Century’s Music
How to Prevent Crimes Using Earthquakes
A Negative Number as Sum of All Natural Numbers
The Arch of Titus at the Circus Maximus: From Mathematical Models to Virtual Reconstruction
The Space of Planar Soap Bubble Clusters
Mathematics as a Social Language: A (Past and Present) Phenomenology
Balance in…Forms
Mathematical and Numerical Description of the Heart Function
Weird Gears
Historical Notes on Star Geometry in Mathematics, Art and Nature
Pentagonal Structures as Impulse for Art
Mathematics, a Closer Look
Drowning by Numbers: Topology and Physics in Fluid Dynamics
Éloge des Mathématiques
Luca Pacioli: Letters from Venice
Dante’s Underworld
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
From Algebra to the Secrets of the Universe: The Fascinating Life of Mary Somerville