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  2. Mathematics and art - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways. Mathematics has itself been described as an art motivated by beauty. Mathematics can be discerned in arts such as music, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and textiles. This article focuses, however, on mathematics in the visual arts. Mathematics and art have a long historical ...

  3. Ethnomathematics - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics education, ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture. [1] Often associated with "cultures without written expression", [2] it may also be defined as "the mathematics which is practised among identifiable cultural groups". [3]

  4. List of mathematical artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of artists who actively explored mathematics in their artworks. [3] Art forms practised by these artists include painting , sculpture , architecture , textiles and origami . Some artists such as Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli went so far as to write books on mathematics in art.

  5. History of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past.Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.

  6. Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia

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    Some mathematicians see beauty in mathematical results that establish connections between two areas of mathematics that at first sight appear to be unrelated. [5] These results are often described as deep. While it is difficult to find universal agreement on whether a result is deep, some examples are more commonly cited than others.

  7. Scientific Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.

  8. Proportion (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Proportion is a central principle of architectural theory and an important connection between mathematics and art. It is the visual effect of the relationship of the various objects and spaces that make up a structure to one another and to the whole. These relationships are often governed by multiples of a standard unit of length known as a ...

  9. History of human thought - Wikipedia

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    The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.