Mathematics in, of and for architecture: a framework of types

Title: Mathematics in, of and for architecture: a framework of types
Creator: Ostwald, Michael J.; Williams, Kim
Relation: Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, Volume 1: Antiquity to the 1500s p. 31-57
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00137-1_3
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: A majority of the many different types of applications of mathematics in architecture are present, in some rudimentary way at least, in even the earliest myths of this discipline. The more extensive set of application types in use today shares a clear lineage to these ancestral cases. The specific formulas used by architects and engineers may have changed, and, amongst other things, their capacity to work with non-orthogonal geometries has also improved, but the fundamental purpose of the application of mathematics in architecture has endured throughout history. The purpose of the present chapter is to examine and to begin to identify the different ways in which mathematics is used in architecture.
Subject: mathematics; art; architecture; history of mathematical sciences
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340047
Identifier: uon:28389
Identifier: ISBN:9783319001364
Language: eng

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