Imagine Math 2: Between Culture and Mathematics

Michele Emmer (Editor) 

Springer | 2013 | 262 páginas | PDF | 3,15 Mb


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Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms.  The new volume in the series “Imagine Math” is intended to contribute to grasping how much that is interesting and new is happening in the relationships between mathematics, imagination and culture.

The present book begins with the connections between mathematics, numbers, poetry and music, with the latest opera by Italian composer Claudio Ambrosini. Literature and narrative also play an important role here. There is cinema too, with the “erotic” mathematics films by Edward Frenkel, and the new short “Arithmétique “ by  Munari and Rovazzani. The section on applications of mathematics features a study of ants, as well as the refined forms and surfaces generated by algorithms used in the performances by Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne. Last but not least, in honour of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, a mathematical, literary and theatrical homage to Alan Turing, one of the outstanding figures of the twentieth century.

Contents

Introduction . . 1

Mathematics, Numbers and Music

The Fascination of Numbers, between Music and Poetry

Michele Emmer . . 5

The Solitude of Last Words

Claudio Ambrosini . . 11

Mathematics, Poetry and Literature

Godel’s Childhood and Other Algorithms

Vincenzo Della Mea . . 23

The Wild Number Problem: Math or Fiction?

Philibert Schogt . . 31

A Play at Dusk. Mathematics in Literature

Carlo Toffalori. . 39

Mathematics according to Italo Calvino

Gabriele Lolli . . 49

The Mathematical Mind - Iconography of a Tension

Paolo Pagli  . . 57

Mathematics and Film

Spatial Rhythms in Cinema between the Avant-Garde and Entertainment

Gian Piero Brunetta  . . 69

Lessons in Mathematics, at the Cinema

Michele Emmer  . . 83

Mathematics, Love, and Tattoos

Edward Frenkel . . 93

Arithmetique

Giovanni Munari. . . 101

Mathematics and Art

L’art du Trait est l’attrait de l’Art

Sophie Skaf  . . 107

Mathematics and Morphology

Morphogenesis and Dynamical Systems. A View Instantiated by a Performative Design Approach

Sara Franceschelli  . . 117

Empirical Evidence that the World Is Not a Computer

James W. McAllister  . . 127

Mathematics, Art and Music

Numeri Malefici (Evil Numbers): Homage to Fabio Mauri

Michele Emmer . . 139

From Pollock’s Summertime to Jacksontime

Davide Amodio . . 151

Mathematics as a Tool for the Composition of Jacksontime

Chiara de Fabritiis. . 161

Mathematics and Applications

Extracting Information from Chaos: a Case in Climatological Analysis

Francesco Bonghi, Roberto Ferretti  . . 173

On the Tangible Boundary between Real and Virtual

Andrien Mondot  . . 181

Fort Marghera and the French and Austrian Plans of Defence

Mauro Scroccaro . . 185

Mathematics and Ants

Myrmedrome: Simulating the Life of an Ant Colony

Simone Cacace, Emiliano Cristiani, Dario D’Eustacchio. . 201

Ants Searching for a Minimum

Maurizio Falcone. . 211

Mathematics and Marco

Exotic Spheres and John Milnor

Marco Abate. . 221

Cellular Automata: the Game of Life

Gian Marco Todesco . . 231

Homage to Alan Turing

Alan M. Turing (1912-1954)

Gabriele Lolli. . 247

Alan Turing and the Poisoned Apple

Massimo Vincenzi . . 255