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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2007

Series: CMS Books in Mathematics

ISBN (Hardback): 9780387305264

Full citation:

Nathalie Sinclair, David Pimm, William Higginson (eds), Mathematics and the aesthetic, Berlin, Springer, 2007

Mathematics and the aesthetic

Contents

A historical gaze at the mathematical aesthetic

Nathalie Sinclair, David Pimm

1-17

Aesthetics for the working mathematician

Jonathan M. Borwein

21-40

Beauty and truth in mathematics

Doris Schattschneider

41-57

Experiencing meanings in geometry

David W. Henderson, Daina Taimina

58-83

The aesthetic sensibilities of mathematicians

Nathalie Sinclair

87-104

The meaning of pattern

Martin Schiralli

105-125

Mathematics, aesthetics and being human

William Higginson

126-142

Mechanism and magic in the psychology of dynamic geometry

145-159

Drawing on the image in mathematics and art

David Pimm

160-190

Sensible objects

Dick Tahta

191-222

Aesthetics and the "mathematical mind"

David Pimm, Nathalie Sinclair

223-254