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Mathematics
in art
Author: Hanna Smach
IIIa
Architecture
Mathematics provides a solid foundations of
every building.
Pyramids in Giza (Egypt) - pyramid-shaped
structures on a square plan. They were built
about 2560 years B.C.
cone
Castle in Bytów (Poland) - the Teutonic Knights
castle was built at the beginning of the fifteenth
century on a rectangular plan with one square
and 3 round towers in the corners of building.
hemispherical dome
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Turkey) – a temple built
in the sixth century, over the central part of a
building there is a dome which is based on four
pillars and 107 columns. These columns create
circle which is the base of the dome.
Painting
„Composition 8” by Wassily Kandinsky
Cubizm
Direction in the art in the twentieth century. It
consists in geometric simplification of the
elements of the composition.
magic square
Melancholy I – copperplate
by Albrecht Dürer . The
most interesting thing is a
magic square. Sum of the
numbers in each column
and each row is the same
(34). Moreover, the
number of 34 can be
obtained by adding
numbers in the corners.
Sculpture
Miguel Angel Velit „Mathematical Sculpture"
Möbius Strip
This figure which has only one edge has been
used by a few sculptors.
Max Bill „Endless Ribbon”, Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Art in Baltimore (USA)
„Möbius Strip”, Fermilab (USA)
Music
Fractions are music notes (for
example half note, quarter
note, eighth note).
Beat of music is also expressed
in fractions.
Thank you for
your attention!