Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations

I bought this for my Math-Enthusiast husband, and it has been a HUGE hit. A fantastic convergence of the elegance of math and the expressiveness of art!

My 8 year old grandson has been fascinated by mc escher for years. I have talked to him about the math and geometry that go into the drawings. I got him this book for a better understanding of the development of the drawings. It is a bit advanced for his age but he told me that was okay because he could keep learning from it.

Teacher purchased book to inspire students to see pattern in nature and math in the real world. Many kids selected this book to look at--there are excellent pictures to see to understand the ideas provided. Text was higher level, not as interesting to 5th grade gifted students. But the images are awesome inspiration.

Wonderful book for the mathematically / artistically inclined. The book contains numerous color photos of 3D - printed sculptures and mathematically generated paintings. I thought the most beautiful works were the color fractals shown in Chapters 8 and 9. Other interesting designs were the wall papers shown in Chapter 16 and the sculptures shown in Chapter 17. The “Shamsa” art layout in page 108 would make a beautiful landscape parterre design. The more mathematically oriented discussions were those on the numbers pi and phi or the Golden Ratio.

If you have any interest at all in the beauty of mathematics then this is a must have. Not only are the illustrations amazing and right on point but the descriptions are clear and thought provoking, (without all those tedious numbers and equations). I will admit my higher math skills are just slightly above abysmal but the author makes the concepts clear and easy to understand, and puts an interesting and often humorous twist on them. For example the chapter on the Mandelbrot set opens with a sub header; “Bugs, seahorses, and elephants, all the way down.” (Playing on the old physics joke.) Then the concepts are explained in a clear and understandable way. From Euclid to the Traveling Salesman Problem and on to the infinite, with some quite surprising relationships along the way. A great read I couldn’t put down.

I liked this book a lot. Do not need to know math, just need to enjoy the beauty of it. This book does a great job of showing that.

Love this book! My copy arrived yesterday, and I stayed up way too late reading! The photos are beautiful and come to life with the chapters describing the math and the artists behind them. I love the way that the author madre clear his parameters for what was included in the book - a challenge in and of itself given the breadth of overlap between math and art.

I got this for my math major daughter and she loved it. She actually cut out several of the prints and framed them to hang on her wall

How Math Art is related to the design and construction of Architecture

excellent book. Artistic and clever

Uma edição muito linda, papel de qualidade e bem diagramado. O conteúdo é realmente uma arte. Ótimo para pessoas de exatas e artistas, pois apresenta a união dos dois universos.

The artwork is a great illustration of how maths can be used to entice interest in artisitic students.

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