Theorem Painting

Theorem Painting
Author: Linda E. Brubaker
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2009-07-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0811741834

Traditional theorem painting involves making multiple-overlay stencils and using them to paint primitive, three-dimensional pictures on velvet. In this book, acclaimed painter Linda E. Brubaker offers expert advice on selecting tools and materials, making stencils, mounting velvet, and mixing colors, along with painting exercises and tips for removing mistakes. Step-by-step instructions and patterns are provided for 9 complete projects, including designs for fruits, flowers, a butterfly, a mallard duck, and a bucolic memorial scene. Techniques for attractive and safe framing are also discussed. Full-color throughout.

Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms

Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms
Author: Joseph O'Rourke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1987
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Art gallery theorems and algorithms are so called because they relate to problems involving the visibility of geometrical shapes and their internal surfaces. This book explores generalizations and specializations in these areas. Among the presentations are recently discovered theorems on orthogonal polygons, polygons with holes, exterior visibility, visibility graphs, and visibility in three dimensions. The author formulates many open problems and offers several conjectures, providing arguments which may be followed by anyone familiar with basic graph theory and algorithms. This work may be applied to robotics and artificial intelligence as well as other fields, and will be especially useful to computer scientists working with computational and combinatorial geometry.

The Art of Theorem Painting

The Art of Theorem Painting
Author: Linda Carter Lefko
Publisher: Avery
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Among the most charming of folk art collectibles are theorems--colorful still-lifes created with stencils on velvet or paper. This unique book is both a history of the craft and a practical introduction to its techniques. Includes 36 detailed patterns and 100 full-color illustrations.

Hackers & Painters

Hackers & Painters
Author: Paul Graham
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2004-05-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0596006624

The author examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, Internet startups and more. He also tells important stories about the kinds of people behind technical innovations, revealing their character and their craft.

Euler's Pioneering Equation

Euler's Pioneering Equation
Author: Robin Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0192514067

In 1988 The Mathematical Intelligencer, a quarterly mathematics journal, carried out a poll to find the most beautiful theorem in mathematics. Twenty-four theorems were listed and readers were invited to award each a 'score for beauty'. While there were many worthy competitors, the winner was 'Euler's equation'. In 2004 Physics World carried out a similar poll of 'greatest equations', and found that among physicists Euler's mathematical result came second only to Maxwell's equations. The Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin reflected the feelings of many in describing it as "like a Shakespearian sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting which brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence". What is it that makes Euler's identity, eiπ + 1 = 0, so special? In Euler's Pioneering Equation Robin Wilson shows how this simple, elegant, and profound formula links together perhaps the five most important numbers in mathematics, each associated with a story in themselves: the number 1, the basis of our counting system; the concept of zero, which was a major development in mathematics, and opened up the idea of negative numbers; π an irrational number, the basis for the measurement of circles; the exponential e, associated with exponential growth and logarithms; and the imaginary number i, the square root of -1, the basis of complex numbers. Following a chapter on each of the elements, Robin Wilson discusses how the startling relationship between them was established, including the several near misses to the discovery of the formula.

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2000
Genre: Art and music
ISBN: 9780140289206

'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.

The Invention of Infinity

The Invention of Infinity
Author: Judith Veronica Field
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0198523947

Fully illustrated, this story brings together the histories of arts and mathematics and shows how infinity at last acquired a precise mathematical meaning.

Women's Painted Furniture, 1790-1830

Women's Painted Furniture, 1790-1830
Author: Betsy Krieg Salm
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1584658452

Beautifully illustrated, comprehensive study of women's painted furniture, a long-lost art that sheds light on women's lives in the early republic

The Pythagorean Theorem

The Pythagorean Theorem
Author: Eli Maor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0691196885

Frontmatter --Contents --List of Color Plates --Preface --Prologue: Cambridge, England, 1993 --1. Mesopotamia, 1800 BCE --Sidebar 1: Did the Egyptians Know It? --2. Pythagoras --3. Euclid's Elements --Sidebar 2: The Pythagorean Theorem in Art, Poetry, and Prose --4. Archimedes --5. Translators and Commentators, 500-1500 CE --6. François Viète Makes History --7. From the Infinite to the Infinitesimal --Sidebar 3: A Remarkable Formula by Euler --8. 371 Proofs, and Then Some --Sidebar 4: The Folding Bag --Sidebar 5: Einstein Meets Pythagoras --Sidebar 6: A Most Unusual Proof --9. A Theme and Variations --Sidebar 7: A Pythagorean Curiosity --Sidebar 8: A Case of Overuse --10. Strange Coordinates --11. Notation, Notation, Notation --12. From Flat Space to Curved Spacetime --Sidebar 9: A Case of Misuse --13. Prelude to Relativity --14. From Bern to Berlin, 1905-1915 --Sidebar 10: Four Pythagorean Brainteasers --15. But Is It Universal? --16. Afterthoughts --Epilogue: Samos, 2005 --Appendixes --Chronology --Bibliography --Illustrations Credits --Index.