Mathematics and aesthetic: New approaches to an ancient affinity

Sinclair N., Pimm D., Higginson W. (eds.)0387305264

Table of contents :
Preface……Page 6
Contents……Page 10
A Historical Gaze at the Mathematical Aesthetic……Page 14
A. The Mathematician’s Art……Page 31
Aesthetics for the Working Mathematician……Page 33
Beauty and Truth in Mathematics……Page 53
Experiencing Meanings in Geometry……Page 70
B. A Sense for Mathematics……Page 96
The Aesthetic Sensibilities of Mathematicians……Page 98
The Meaning of Pattern……Page 116
Mathematics, Aesthetics and Being Human……Page 137
C. Mathematical Agency……Page 154
Mechanism and Magic in the Psychology of Dynamic Geometry……Page 156
Drawing on the Image in Mathematics and Art……Page 171
Sensible Objects……Page 202
Aesthetics and the ‘Mathematical Mind’……Page 234
REFERENCES……Page 266