A Mathematical Picture Book

A visual tour of mathematics More than 1000 coloured illustrations Striking and surprising topics from arithmetics to topology

Autorentext
Georg Glaeser is professor of mathematics and geometry at the University of Applied Art in Vienna and the author of numerous books on computational geometry. Konrad Polthier is professor of mathematics at the Free University of Berlin and the DFG Research Center Matheon. Springer has published a number of his books on mathematical visualization as well as entertaining videos on mathematics, including the prizewinning MESH and the collection of films from the MathFilm Festival 2008.

Inhalt

1. Polyhedral Models.- 2. Geometry in the Plane.- 3. Problems New and Old.- 4. Formulas and the Integers.- 5. Functions and Limits.- 6. Curves and Knots.- 7. Geometry and Topology of Surfaces.- 8. Minimal Surfaces and Soap Bubbles.- 9. Tilings and Packings.- 10. Space Forms and Dimension.- 11. Graphs and Incidence Geometry.- 12. Movable Forms.- 13. Fractals.- 14. Maps and Mappings.- 15. Forms and Processes in Nature and Technology.- Picture Credits.- Index.