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Lynn Gamwell, “Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History” (Princeton UP, 2015)

2016/1/5
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Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

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Today I’m talking with Lynn Gamwell about Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2015). This book is a breathtaking combination of scholarship and beauty, tracing the interplay of mathematics and art throughout mankind’s history, East and West. Gamwell is a lecturer in the history of mathematics and...