Art of Science

From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

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

Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:210
Upplaga:2014
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319021102

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Innehållsförteckning

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.