{"product_id":"geometric-design-christopher-alan-arthur-9780692262344","title":"Geometric Design: An Artful Portfolio of Mathematical Graphics","description":"Aristotle would have said that a geometer considers the shapes of things in the natural world, not insofar as shapes are physical, but rather by abstracting the qualities of figure from the things themselves. In a philosophical sense this book by Mr. Arthur is thus one about geometry. The original illustrations go artistically beyond what a reader might expect to find in a textbook, and yet there is still a useful discussion revealing the important secrets of the creative process from a mathematical perspective. As an exploration of symmetry and smoothness, the work exhibits the precision of a draftsman unfettered by the practical constraints of real construction and engineering. Mr. Arthur develops a style of a visual art that is less dependent on the physical coordination of drawing with a pencil or a digital stylus and an art that is more of a purely intellectual nature. Clearly for the mathematical reader at a level of study somewhat exceeding vector calculus, the book presents new possibilities of exotic shapes (by their torsion or concavity) still having desirable qualities such as differentiability, self-similarity or compactness. Included in this book are many full-color pictures of tessellations, polyhedrons, unusual curves and surfaces, and fractals, along with their generating equations, coordinates and diagrams. \u003ci\u003e(Note: the present edition does not publish the source code.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Alan Arthur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692262342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692262344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher A. Arthur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d","brand":"Christopher Alan Arthur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981112279295,"sku":"9780692262344","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_30cf1ea3-d734-4728-b50b-8f4faa2409b0.jpg?v=1683253723","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/geometric-design-christopher-alan-arthur-9780692262344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}