Geometric Themes and Variations

Geometric Themes and Variations
Author: Miguel Angel Sánchez Serrano
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486147355

In this amazing cache of designs, arresting displays of geometrics explode into thousands of fascinating variations. Each of forty-one original black-and-white motifs is spun into three pages of adaptations, offering strikingly different variations on the original theme. More than 4,300 images build upon basic geometric shapes, transforming circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles into intricate patterns that form kaleidoscopic designs, optical illusions, and hypnotic abstracts. A versatile resource for graphics, art, and craft projects, this collection offers not only a wealth of images for immediate practical use but also an excellent reference for design inspiration.

Six Themes on Variation

Six Themes on Variation
Author: Steven James Cox
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0821837206

The calculus of variations is a beautiful subject with a rich history and with origins in the minimization problems of calculus. Although it is now at the core of many modern mathematical fields, it does not have a well-defined place in most undergraduate mathematics curricula. This volume should nevertheless give the undergraduate reader a sense of its great character and importance. Interesting functionals, such as area or energy, often give rise to problems whose most natural solution occurs by differentiating a one-parameter family of variations of some function. The critical points of the functional are related to the solutions of the associated Euler-Lagrange equation. These differential equations are at the heart of the calculus of variations and its applications to wave mechanics, minimal surfaces, soap bubbles, and modeling traffic flow. All are readily accessible to advanced undergraduates. This book is derived from a workshop sponsored by Rice University. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the calculus of variations and its applications to other subjects.

Geometry in Action

Geometry in Action
Author: Clark Kimberling
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781931914024

Geometry in Action uses Sketchpad? to awaken student creativity through discovery-based learning. It supplements any college geometry course in which The Geometer's Sketchpad is used. All students must have access to The Geometer's Sketchpad.Each book is packaged with a CD-ROM for students that illustrates what is meant by geometry in action. Students explore 27 sketches prepared by the author to demonstrate Sketchpad's capabilities by dragging points to see shifts in graphs, by animating tesselations to create new patterns, and much, much more! Also included on this CD is the Poincare Disk, a Sketchpad file used to dig deeper into non-Euclidean geometry with The Geometer's Sketchpad.

Variations on a Theme of Borel

Variations on a Theme of Borel
Author: Shmuel Weinberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2022-12-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108916848

In the middle of the last century, after hearing a talk of Mostow on one of his rigidity theorems, Borel conjectured in a letter to Serre a purely topological version of rigidity for aspherical manifolds (i.e. manifolds with contractible universal covers). The Borel conjecture is now one of the central problems of topology with many implications for manifolds that need not be aspherical. Since then, the theory of rigidity has vastly expanded in both precision and scope. This book rethinks the implications of accepting his heuristic as a source of ideas. Doing so leads to many variants of the original conjecture - some true, some false, and some that remain conjectural. The author explores this collection of ideas, following them where they lead whether into rigidity theory in its differential geometric and representation theoretic forms, or geometric group theory, metric geometry, global analysis, algebraic geometry, K-theory, or controlled topology.

A Natural History of Shells

A Natural History of Shells
Author: Geerat J. Vermeij
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1995-04-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780691001678

From “one of the master naturalists of our time” (American Scientist), a fascinating exploration of what seashells reveal about biology, evolution, and the history of life Geerat Vermeij wrote this “celebration of shells” to share his enthusiasm for these supremely elegant creations and what they can teach us about nature. Most popular books on shells emphasize the identification of species, but Vermeij uses shells as a way to explore major ideas in biology. How are shells built? How do they work? And how did they evolve? With lucidity and charm, the MacArthur-winning evolutionary biologist reveals how shells give us insights into the lives of animals today and in the distant geological past.

Geometric Puzzle Design

Geometric Puzzle Design
Author: Stewart Coffin
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1568814992

This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical d

Modern Geometric Structures and Fields

Modern Geometric Structures and Fields
Author: Сергей Петрович Новиков
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821839292

Presents the basics of Riemannian geometry in its modern form as geometry of differentiable manifolds and the important structures on them. This book shows that Riemannian geometry has a great influence to several fundamental areas of modern mathematics and its applications.

Geometric Measure Theory and the Calculus of Variations

Geometric Measure Theory and the Calculus of Variations
Author: William K. Allard
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1986
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821814702

Includes twenty-six papers that survey a cross section of work in modern geometric measure theory and its applications in the calculus of variations. This title provides an access to the material, including introductions and summaries of many of the authors' much longer works and a section containing 80 open problems in the field.

A Natural History of Shells

A Natural History of Shells
Author: Geerat Vermeij
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0691229244

"With a new preface by the author"--Title page.