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The seduction of curves
Allan McRobie
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An edition of The seduction of curves (2017)

The seduction of curves

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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 Dalí'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 René Thom.

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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
159

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Subjects
Plane Geometry, Shapes, Curves in engineering, Curves, Form (Aesthetics), Geometry, plane, Form (aesthetics), Mathematics in art

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The seduction of curves: the lines of beauty that connect mathematics, art, and the nude
2017, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

1.
The Alphabet of Beautiful Curves -- -- 2.
The Fold -- -- 3.
The Cusp -- -- 4.
The Swallowtail -- -- 5.
The Butterfly -- -- 6.
The Wigwam -- -- 7.
Lips, Beaks, Gull, Goose -- -- 8.
The Persistence of Cusps -- -- 9.
Moiré and Dupin -- -- 10.
The Umbilics -- -- 11.
Catastrophe Optics -- -- 12.
The Rainbow -- -- 13.
Gravitational Lenses -- -- 14.
Stability -- -- 15.
Morphogenesis -- -- 16.
Gabo -- -- 17.
The Pregnance of Curves -- -- 18.
Thom -- -- 19.
Dalí.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
516/.152
Library of Congress
QA483 .M37 2017, QA483.M37 2017

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Pagination
159 pages
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26964719M
ISBN 10
0691175330
ISBN 13
9780691175331
LCCN
2016046344
OCLC/WorldCat
960641915

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