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Beyond Measure: A Guided Tour through Nature, Myth, and Number

By Jay Kappraff

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2002
ISBN
981024701X, 9789810247010
LCC
QA445 .K357 2002
Open Library ID
OL3703861M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30744151 bytes)
Pages
615\615
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cultural contexts and in nature: the ancient musical scale, proportion in architecture, ancient geometry, megalithic stone circles, the hidden pavements of the Laurentian library, the shapes of the Hebrew letters, and the shapes of biological forms. The focus is on how certain numbers, such as the golden and silver means, present themselves within these systems. Part II shows how many of the same numbers and number sequences are related to the modern mathematical study of numbers, dynamical systems, chaos, and fractals.

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