The Garden of Archimedes
 The Garden of Archimedes
 A Museum for Mathematics

    catalogo

Beyond the compasses.
The geometry of curves

ed. Polistampa, Firenze, 2000 - 92 pages, colour illustrated.






to receive the catalogue: Archimedes' shop
 


It is born as a complement of the homonymous exhibition. It contains two essays, The geometry of curves and Curves and mechanisms , which, enriched by figures and pictures, illustrate the contents of the exhibition in an articulated way. It contains, moreover, pictures and brief descriptions of the exhibited objects and an historical section collecting images from the main text books referenced in the exhibition.




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