Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science
item # 9780060926717
by Michael S. Schneider
The Universe May Be a Mystery, But It's No Secret Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. A Beginner's Guide to Constructing, the Universe shows you: What property makes the spiral the most widespread shape in nature, from embryos and hair curls to hurricanes and galaxies.
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