Author : Allan McRobie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691175331
The Seduction of Curves by Allan McRobie Pdf
In this large-format book, lavishly illustrated in color throughout, Allan McRobie takes the reader on an alluring exploration of the beautiful curves that shape our world--from our bodies to Salvador Dalí's paintings and the space-time fabric of the universe itself. The book focuses on seven curves--the fold, cusp, swallowtail, and butterfly, plus the hyperbolic, elliptical, and parabolic "umbilics"--and describes the surprising origins of their taxonomy in the catastrophe theory of mathematician René Thom.