Art of Science

From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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In addition to linear perspective, complex numbers and probability were notable discoveries of the Renaissance. It was only in the twentieth century that quantum theory showed how probability might be molded from complex numbers and defined the notion of “complex probability amplitude”.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-08-05
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor210
Upplaga2014
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319021102

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From Perspective Drawing to the Eighth Dimension.- Seeing Reality in Perspective: The “Art of Optics” and the “Science of Painting”.- The Role of Perspective in the Transformation of European Culture.- Visual Differential Geometry and Beltrami’s Hyperbolic Plane.- All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras.- Artists & Gamblers on the Way to Quantum Physics.- Radices Sophisticae, Racines Imaginaires: The Origins of Complex Numbers in the Late Renaissance.- Random, Complex, and Quantum.