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  • Basics of Virtual Reality

    From the Discovery of Perspective to VR Glasses

    by Armin Grasnick ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Today, the reality we know can be recorded and reproduced true to reality using technical processes. Space and time are recreated virtually as a copy in artificial reality. However, the reproduction of virtual reality is not limited to a mere copy of what exists. A visitor to the virtual space does not have to be content with the pixelated image of the old familiar, but can encounter unreal ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • The Golden Ratio

    The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number

    by Mario Livio ...
    Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Golden Ratio

    The Divine Beauty of Mathematics

    by Gary B. Meisner ...
    This enlightening and gorgeously illustrated book explores the beauty and mystery of the divine proportion in art, architecture, nature, and beyond.From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. Author Gary Meisner has spent decades researching the subject, investigating and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Math and the Mona Lisa

    The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci

    by Bulent Atalay ...
    Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the Mona Lisa picks up where The Da Vinci Code left off, illuminating Leonardo's life and work to uncover connections that, until now, have been known ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Leonhard Euler

    Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment

    by Ronald S. Calinger ...
    An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707–83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

  • Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Translated by Albert Van Helden ...
    The "revolutionary, scintillating book" in which Galileo revealed his wondrous astronomical discoveries, with accompanying notes and historical context (Metascience).Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, "unheard of through the ages," revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Circles

    Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge

    by Manuel Lima ...
    In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations from around the world cover an encyclopedic array of subjects—architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy, and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Shadows

    Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

    by Roberto Casati ...
    In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world.For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Color

    An Introduction to Practice and Principles

    by Rolf G. Kuehni ...
    The one-stop reference to the essentials of color science and technology—now fully updated and revisedThe fully updated Third Edition of Color: An Introduction to Practice and Principles continues to provide a truly comprehensive, non-mathematical introduction to color science, complete with historical, philosophical, and art-related topics.Geared to non-specialists and experts alike, Color ... Read more

    $103.00 USD

  • Visual Illusions

    by James Kingston ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Visual Illusions, also called Optical Illusions are basically games the eyes play with our brains. They take many forms, there are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological ones that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, tilt, color, movement), and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Structural Intuitions

    Seeing Shapes in Art and Science

    by Martin Kemp ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    "All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge," wrote Albert Einstein. In Structural Intuitions, a fascinating exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate realms, renowned art historian Martin Kemp applies Einstein's notion both to science and to art.Kemp argues that in both fields, work begins at the intuitive level, curiosity aroused by our ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Elementary Illustrations of the Differential and Integral Calculus (Illustrated)

    by Augustus De Morgan ...
    DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS.ELEMENTARY ILLUSTRATIONS.The Differential and Integral Calculus, or, as it was formerly called, the Doctrine of Fluxions, has always been supposed to present remarkable obstacles to the beginner. It is matter of common observation that anyone who commences this study, even with the best elementary works, finds himself in the dark as to the real meaning of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD