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Books and Videos
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Mathematics and Art
- Fragments of Infinity
- Ivars Peterson, J. Wiley, 2001.
- The Visual Mind
- Michele Emmer, MIT, 1993.
Polyhedra and Higher Dimensions
- Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension
- Rudy Rucker, Dover, 1977.
- The Fourth Dimension
- Rudy Rucker, Roy Rucker, Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
- Beyond the Third Dimension
- Thomas Banchoff, Freeman, 1996.
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Edwin A. Abbott, Dover, 1992.
- Regular Polytopes
- H.S.M. Coxeter, Dover, 1973.
- Polyhedron Models
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Cambridge, 1974.
- Zome Geometry
- George W. Hart, Henri Picciotto, Key Curriculum Press, 2000.
- Shadows of Reality: the Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
- Tony Robbin, Yale, 2006.
Knots
- The Knot Book
- Colin Adams, Freeman, 1994.
Symmetry and Natural Patterns
- The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure
- Robert Williams, Dover, 1979.
- On Growth and Form
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Dover, 1992.
- The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
- Philip Ball, Oxford, 1998.
- Soap Bubbles
- Charles V. Boys, Dover, 1959.
- Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations
- Theodore Andrea Cook, Dover, 1979.
- Shapes, Space, and Symmetry
- Alan Holden, Dover, 1991.
- The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty
- H. E. Huntley, Dover, 1970.
- The Science of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles
- Cyril Isenberg, Dover, 1992.
- Symmetry: A Unifying Concept
- Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, Ten Speed, 2000.
- Fivefold Symmetry
- Istvan Hargittai, ed., World Scientific, 1992.
- Spiral Symmetry
- Istvan Hargittai, Clifford Pickover, eds., World Scientific, 1992.
Music
- Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
- William A. Sethares, Springer, 1998.
- The Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperament
- Anita T. Sullivan, Metamorphous, 1986.
- Musical Temperaments (with CD-ROM)
- Erich Neuwirth, Springer, 1997.
- On the Sensations of Tone
- Herman Helmholtz, Dover, 1954.
- Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey
- James Murray Barbour, Da Capo, 1972.
- Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness
- Alain Danielou, Inner Traditions, 1995.
Escher and Tilings
- Miles of Tiles
- Charles Radin, AMS, 1999.
- M.C. Escher Kaleidocycles
- Doris Schattschneider, Wallace Walker, Pomegranate Artbooks, 1987.
- Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks ... of M.C. Escher (new edition)
- Doris Schattschneider, Harry Abrams, 2004.
- Escher on Escher: Exploring the Infinite
- M. C. Escher, J. W. Vermeulen, Harry Abrams, 1989.
- Other Worlds: Poems on Prints by M.C. Escher
- Catherine Callaghan, Pudding House, 1999.
- M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work
- M. C. Escher, J. L. Locher, Harry Abrams, 1992.
- M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
- M. C. Escher, Taschen, 1996.
- The Magic of M.C. Escher
- J. L. Locher, W. F. Veldhuysen, Abrams, 2000.
- The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
- Bruno Ernst, Taschen, 1994.
- Designing Tessellations: The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns
- Jinny Beyer, Contemporary Books, 1999.
Fractals and Chaos
- Symmetry in Chaos
- Michael Field, Martin Golubitsky, Oxford, 1992.
- Fractal Geometry of Nature
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Freeman, 1988
- The Beauty of Fractals
- Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Peter H. Richter, Springer, 1988.
- The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
- Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, A. Lindenmayer, Springer, 1996.
- African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design
- Ron Eglash, Rutgers, 1999.
Sculpture
- Helaman Ferguson: Mathematics in Stone and Bronze
- Claire Ferguson, Helaman Ferguson, Meridian, 1994.
Other
- The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
- Euclid; Haines & Heath, eds., Dover, 1956.
See also the online version of Euclid's Elements with interactive illustrations (as Java applets), from David Joyce at Clark University. - Mathematical Impressions
- Anatolii T. Fomenko with Richard Lipkin, AMS, 1990.
- A Topological Picture Book
- George Francis, Springer, 1987.
- Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, Basic, 1979.
- Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice
- Robert Lawlor, Thames & Hudson, 1989.
- Concepts and Images: Visual Mathematics
- Arthur L. Loeb, Springer, 1992.
- Space Structures
- Arthur L. Loeb, Springer, 1991.
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1992.
- Envisioning Information
- Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1990.
- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
- Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1997.
Conference Proceedings
- ISAMA '99
- Nathaniel Friedman & Javier Barrallo, eds, Univ. Basque Country, 1999, ISBN 84-930669-0-7.
- Bridges (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
- Reza Sarhangi, ed, Southwestern College, Kansas, ISSN 1099-6702.
- Nexus (Nexus I (1996), Nexus II (1998), Nexus III (2000), Nexus IV (2002))
- , Kim Williams, ed, Edizioni dell'Erba.
Videos
Springer has published a collection of videos from the VideoMath Festival; this collection includes The Optiverse, and is available from bookstores or directly from Springer in NTSC format (for the US) or PAL format (for Europe).
- Not Knot
- The Geometry Center, AK Peters, 1991.
- Outside In
- The Geometry Center, AK Peters, 1994.
Also see the list of Math videos from Filmo / AGC
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