Seed Concepts in Architecture and Mathematics

Architecture, City and Mathematics: The Lost Connection

The connection between architecture and science and sound based on mathematical relations has continued to develop[ since the rise of the Western classical civilization that originated in Ancient Greece. The mysterious Pythagorean cosmology pursued as secret esoteric knowledge was related to the search of rhythm, proportionality and harmony. Even somewhat earlier, Greek mysteries were based on ...

Defining “Center and Edge” Concepts and Their Relationship with Durability and Dynamism in Architecture

Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research

So recounts an admiring biographer the pedagogical exploits of AugustinLouis Cauchy, a towering figure of early nineteenth-century mathematics. Cauchy was trained and then became Professor of Analysis at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, a school for military engineers that not long before Cauchy’s matriculation became one of the first to make systematic use of a new mode of advanced mathema...

Analogy, concepts and methodology, in mathematics∗

Motivation for this article is a question put to Ronnie Brown in June 2004 by a young woman, Bree, at a party while he was visiting the Center for Computational Biology in Bozeman, Montana, to give seminars. Bree said that she was studying maths and ‘found proofs neat’. Also she had asked a lecturer why she should study mathematics, and he had said: ‘Because it has lots of applications’. But, B...

Architecture and Mathematics: Art, Music and Science

It is a great pleasure to write a paper about architecture and mathematics on the occasion of the conference, Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science. It is architecture's intimate relationship to mathematics that underscores its ties to art, music and science. The subject is too vast to lie within the range of a single discussion; this paper will look at some facets of thes...