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- Book Title
- Shadows of Reality : The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism,
- ISBN
- 9780300110395
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Shadows of Reality: the Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
- Item Height
- 262mm
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Item Width
- 211mm
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Item Weight
- 558g
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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A pioneering artist continues his visionary inquiry into hyperspace In this insightful book, which is a revisionist math history as well as a revisionist art history, Tony Robbin, well known for his innovative computer visualizations of hyperspace, investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics. Robbin explores the distinction between the slicing, or Flatland, model and the projection, or shadow, model. He compares the history of these two models and their uses and misuses in popular discussions. Robbin breaks new ground with his original argument that Picasso used the projection model to invent cubism, and that Minkowski had four-dimensional projective geometry in mind when he structured special relativity. The discussion is brought to the present with an exposition of the projection model in the most creative ideas about space in contemporary mathematics such as twisters, quasicrystals, and quantum topology. Robbin clarifies these esoteric concepts with understandable drawings and diagrams. Robbin proposes that the powerful role of projective geometry in the development of current mathematical ideas has been long overlooked and that our attachment to the slicing model is essentially a conceptual block that hinders progress in understanding contemporary models of spacetime. He offers a fascinating review of how projective ideas are the source of some of today's most exciting developments in art, math, physics, and computer visualization.
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Yale University Press
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9780300110395
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Publication Name
Shadows of Reality: the Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Mathematics
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages
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262mm
Item Width
211mm
Item Weight
558g
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