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Title: Sacred Geometry by Miranda Lundy ISBN: 0-8027-1382-3 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Mathematics....
Comment: This is a delightful little book.If you have any interest in Geometry,Math,Design,Shapes,Tile patterns,Puzzles,etc.you'll really enjoy this book.Surprisingly ,you can grasp most of this book knowing high school math,;while at the same time those with more math knowledge will also enjoy it as well.I guess it falls right in the realm of Mathematical Recreations.I am amazed that the author has put together a beautifully writen book,including 168 drawings,figures,diagrams and on top of that shows how most are constructed.All this has been accomplished in 64 pages ,including an introduction.
Rating: 5
Summary: I just loved this book
Comment: This book is a treasure. I was given it as a present and I find myself turning to it for all sorts of ideas and also give it as a present quite regularly. She has managed to pull together a huge amount of wonderful information into a relatively small space. This is an inspiring, beautiful, thought provoking and even useful book. I am a graphic and fabrics designer and I had not come across some of these things before so I am very grateful for them.
I also really like the way the book is put together, lush textured paper (recycled I note) and quality illustrations. The way the subject is built up stage by stage until we reach the more complex set pieces at the back is very good. It helps you understand the basics of good design, and the use of geometry in this process.
I think the new-age overtones work very well too. She manages to convey some of the real mystery and magic of the field while never losing sight of the practical purpose of it all.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 3
Summary: Looks nice, but the content is weak
Comment: This is a very attractive-looking book, and I am very happy if it can make some people more appreciative about mathematicas. But if you are looking for correct info about mathematics or its role in art and culture, then this is not the place to look.
Most of the claims you read about the golden ratio in art and architecture are not valid. The best source of info is the paper "Misconceptions about the golden ratio" by George Markowsky from the College Mathematics Journal v. 23 (1992), 2-19.
If you are interested in the pyramids, please read "The shape of the great pyramid" by Roger Herz-Fischler. Just do it! You will thank me for it!
She claims that there are 14 "demi-regular tilings" of the plane. She defines demiregular to be a tiling (edge-to-edge of regular polygons) with two or three different types of vertices. According to "Tilingss and Patterns" by Grunbaum and Shephard, there are 20 2-uniform tilings and 61 3-uniform tilings.
If you are bothered by statements like "It is nearly impossible to draw a precise heptagon using ruler and compasses alone", then this book is not for you.
Her pictures of the 17 wallpaper groups is wrong. She gives two examples of p1, but misses out on p4g.
Having said this, I must say again that she has a lot of beautiful material in the book. I just think that it is important to be mathematically and historically correct.
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Title: A Little Book of Coincidence by John Martineau ISBN: 0802713882 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Li: Dynamic Form in Nature by David Wade ISBN: 0802714102 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Sun, Moon, & Earth by Robin Heath ISBN: 0802713815 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Platonic & Archimedean Solids by Daud Sutton ISBN: 0802713866 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Useful Mathematical and Physical Formulae by Matt Tweed, Matthew W. Watkins ISBN: 0802713807 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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