100 essential things you didn't know you didn't know about math and the arts
By: John D. Barrow
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780393246551
Subjects: Miscellanea; Arts; Mathematics
Other titles: One hundred essential things you didn't know you didn't know about math and the arts
Description: At first glance, the worlds of math and the arts might not seem like comfortable neighbors. But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinity--after all, math is the study of all patterns, and the world of the arts is rich with pattern. Barrow whisks us through 100 thought-provoking and often whimsical intersections between math and many arts, from the golden ratios of Mondrian's rectangles and the curious fractal-like nature of Pollock's drip paintings to ballerinas' gravity-defying leaps and the next generation of monkeys on typewriters tackling Shakespeare.--from the publisher.
Notes: First published by Bodley Head in 2014 under the title 100 essential things you didn't know you didn't know about maths and the arts.

Includes bibliographical references.