Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach

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Beschreibung

This book deals with the genre of geometric design in the Islamic sphere. Part I presents an overview of Islamic history, its extraordinary spread from the Atlantic to the borders of China in its first century, its adoption of the cultural outlook of the older civilisations that it conquered (in the Middle East, Persia and Central Asia), including their philosophical and scientific achievements - from which it came to express its own unique and highly distinctive artistic and architectural forms. Part II represents the mathematical analysis of Islamic geometric designs.

The presentation offers unlimited precision that allows software to reconstruct the design vision of the original artist. This book will be of interest to Islamic academics, mathematicians as well as to artists & art students.

Über den Autor

Brian Wichmann is the author of a CD/booklet published by World Scientific on geometric patterns. He obtained a DPhil (Oxon) in Mathematics, then had a career in software engineering research at NPL before starting a retirement project of collecting all known classical Islamic geometric patterns. The collection is at [...].

David Wade is the author of a number of books about Islamic Art and related topics. He is also responsible for the web site [...] which has over 4,000 photographs of patterns in Islamic Art. This is a major source of photographs for the book.

Zusammenfassung

Only school-level geometry required

Provides new ways of analysing Islamic Geometric ornament

Shows development and geographical range of the art

Combines historical and mathematical study of Islamic art

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.- I Cultural Context.- 1 A History.- 2 The Scientific Contribution.- 3 Religious Dimension.- 4 The Evolution of Style.- 5 Materials and Mediums.- 6 Countries and Regions.- II Mathematical Analysis.- 7 Introduction.- 8 A Worked Example.- 9 An Octagonal Set.- 10 Octagonal Tiles with a Large Star.- 11 Lines and Edges.- 12 Decagonal Patterns.- 13 What Is Correct?.- 14 6-fold Delights.- 15 Two Level Patterns.- 16 Two Mamluk Masterpieces.- 17 Conclusions.- A The Symmetry of a Tiling.- B Key Dates.- C Glossary.- D Copyright.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Geometrie
Genre:	Mathematik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Mathematics and the Built Environment
Inhalt:	xii 226 S. 9 s/w Illustr. 164 farbige Illustr. 226 p. 173 illus. 164 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319699769
ISBN-10:	3319699768
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-69976-9
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wade, David Wichmann, Brian
Auflage:	1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Mathematics and the Built Environment
Maße:	241 x 160 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	David Wade (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.05.2018
Gewicht:	0,573 kg

Artikel-ID: 111089579