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Chargement... The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art, and the Nudepar Allan McRobie
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. It takes a really clever person to do a book review in sonnet form. I'm more your low art type. There was once a book about curves Which appealed to the Goodreader pervs To watch them all stare At the pictures in there I tell you it gets on my nerves. I am never going to read this book, which was more likely written for the sonneteer than for the limericker. However, I have put many a book through the production process and I unhesitatingly give it 5* if only for its magnificent manifestation. The book producer, the book seller, the book reader, we all picked it up and gazed at it with grovelling appreciation. No doubt the content deserves the treatment: I have, as you will observe, put it on my 'books I've lived through' shelf. I am, that is to say, not entirely unaware of its merit. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In this large-format book, lavishly illustrated in color throughout, Allan McRobie takes the reader on an alluring exploration of the beautiful curves that shape our world--from our bodies to Salvador Dali?'s paintings and the space-time fabric of the universe itself. The book focuses on seven curves--the fold, cusp, swallowtail, and butterfly, plus the hyperbolic, elliptical, and parabolic "umbilics"--and describes the surprising origins of their taxonomy in the catastrophe theory of mathematician Rene? Thom. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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There was once a book about curves
Which appealed to the Goodreader pervs
To watch them all stare
At the pictures in there
I tell you it gets on my nerves.
I am never going to read this book, which was more likely written for the sonneteer than for the limericker. However, I have put many a book through the production process and I unhesitatingly give it 5* if only for its magnificent manifestation. The book producer, the book seller, the book reader, we all picked it up and gazed at it with grovelling appreciation. No doubt the content deserves the treatment: I have, as you will observe, put it on my 'books I've lived through' shelf. I am, that is to say, not entirely unaware of its merit. ( )