The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
`Compelling book...lavishly illustrated book.  Mathematics and arts are clearly equally delightful for Field, and she transmits that enjoyment to the reader.' The Times`Field's book is indeed a shot of adrenaline in the timid arm of Renaissance art history.  Trained as both an art historian and a mathematician, Field plunges right in with a rigorous analysis of the fifteenth-century Italian painter Piero della Francesca's manuscript treatises on mathematics.' Nature