The Seduction Of Curves: The Lines Of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art, And The Nude

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 Dal?'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 Ren? Thom.

• | Author: Allan McRobie
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 19, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 168 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Art
• | ISBN-10: 0691175330
• | ISBN-13: 9780691175331