The Art of Science From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness

The Art of Science From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness / edited by Rossella Lupacchini, Annarita Angelini.

Like linear perspective, complex numbers and probability are notable discoveries of the Renaissance. History has been quick to recognize the crucial impact of linear perspective on painting, but reluctant to acknowledge the importance of complex numbers and probability. Both were treated with a grea...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lupacchini, Rossella (Editor), Angelini, Annarita (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Physics.
History.
Cultural heritage.
Philosophy and science.
Quantum physics.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Perspective Drawing to the Eighth Dimension
  • Seeing Reality in Perspective: The “Art of Optics” and the “Science of Painting”
  • The Role of Perspective in the Transformation of European Culture
  • Visual Differential Geometry and Beltrami’s Hyperbolic Plane.- All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras
  • Artists & Gamblers on the Way to Quantum Physics
  • Radices Sophisticae, Racines Imaginaires: The Origins of Complex Numbers in the Late Renaissance
  • Random, Complex, and Quantum.

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