Skip to main content
Withdrawn
Edit position
Edit position

No position recorded yet. Picking a shelf here sets the manual override.

Mathematics + art : a cultural history
Diagnose this book
Open in Vernon Browser

Mathematics + art : a cultural history

by Lynn Gamwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson

This cultural history explores the relationship between mathematics and art from antiquity to the present, analysing how mathematical concepts are expressed in the visual arts. It examines the shared intellectual pursuits and self-reflection of both disciplines.

Accession 11797 ISBN 9780691165288 Publisher Princeton University Press
Book Images
Reference and live side by side Hover to see live images
Reference
Mathematics + art : a cultural history spine
Mathematics + art : a cultural history cover
Live
No live
Mathematics + art : a cultural history live cover
Mathematics + art : a cultural history spine
No live
Mathematics + art : a cultural history cover Mathematics + art : a cultural history live cover
TAGS
Curated Derived
Art Communication Computer Science Connections Culture History Mathematics Philosophy Science Social Sciences
CONNECTIONS
No connections
State
on_shelf
False
position_updated_at
never
orientation
unknown
Details

Physical

binding_type
Hard Back
dimensions
none captured
spine_text
none captured

Metadata

Book form
LOCATION HISTORY
G:W1:8 5 Current forward
3 weeks ago
G:W1:8 5 forward
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Vernon snapshot
View live

Frozen copy of Vernon's record from the last sync. Fields tagged → flow back into the Pulse record.

Last synced 2026-06-05 15:00 (5 days, 2 hours ago)

Identity

name→ title
Mathematics + art : a cultural history
vernon_id
15607
accession_no→ accession_number
11797
vernon_slug
mathematics-art-a-cultural-history-lynn-gamwell-foreword-by-neil-degrasse-tyson

Drives Pulse state

curr_loc_status→ on_shelf
Stored
location_name
MPR/Level 1/Phrontisterion/MONA
location_reason
Stored
isbn_issn→ isbn (when valid)
9780691165288

Descriptive

production_date
2016
object_type
Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication
object_status
Accessioned
brief_description
This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists. Sumptuous illustrations of artworks and cogent math diagrams are featured in Gamwell's comprehensive exploration.

Subjects & people

authors→ author (initial fill only)
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lynn Gamwell
tags→ tags
Art, Arts, Science, Art, Modern -- 21st century, Geometry, Mathematics, Mathematics in art, Art, Modern -- 20th century, History, Social sciences, Civilisation, Sociology, Language and languages, Communication, Space sciences, Computer systems, Computers, Proportion, Philosophy, Ancient, Space and time, Atomism, Infinite, Composition (Art), Space and time in art
subject_people
Alan Turing (English, b.1912, d.1954), Albert Einstein (b.1879, d.1955), Albrecht Dürer (b.1471, d.1528), Aleksandr Rodchenko, Aristotle (Greek, b.384 BCE, d.322 BCE), Bertrand Russell (British, b.1872, d.1970), Charles Darwin (English, b.1809, d.1882), Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b.1948), Plato (Greek, b.428 BCE, d.247 BCE), Sol LeWitt (b.1928, d.2007), Vladimir Tatlin (Russian, b.1885, d.1953)
subject_objects
—

Cover image

vernon_cover_image_id→ cover_image
18891

Raw Vernon JSON

click to inspect

The source payload behind the snapshot above.
Use ⌘F to search once expanded.
{7 keys}
"slug": "mathematics-art-a-cultural-history-lynn-gamwell-foreword-by-neil-degrasse-tyson"
"opacObjectId": "15607"
"opacCollection": {1 keys}
"opacCollectionId": "1"
"imagesCollection": {2 keys}
"images": [1 items]
"[0]": {5 keys}
"imageId": "18891"
"cssColors": [3 items]
"[0]": {9 keys}
"hex": "f5f5f5"
"hue": 0
"rank": 1
"presence": 31.32
"colorName": "whitesmoke"
"lightness": 96
"colorGroup": "white"
"saturation": 0
"formattedColorName": "white smoke"
"[1]": {9 keys}
"hex": "000000"
"hue": 0
"rank": 2
"presence": 65.07
"colorName": "black"
"lightness": 0
"colorGroup": "gray"
"saturation": 0
"formattedColorName": "black"
"[2]": {9 keys}
"hex": "708090"
"hue": 210
"rank": 3
"presence": 3.4
"colorName": "slategray"
"lightness": 50
"colorGroup": "gray"
"saturation": 13
"formattedColorName": "slate gray"
"rawColors": [7 items]
"[0]": {6 keys}
"hex": "eeeeed"
"hue": 60
"rank": 1
"presence": 31.32
"lightness": 93
"saturation": 2
"[1]": {6 keys}
"hex": "161d19"
"hue": 145
"rank": 2
"presence": 65.07
"lightness": 10
"saturation": 13
"[2]": {6 keys}
"hex": "6d726e"
"hue": 132
"rank": 3
"presence": 3.4
"lightness": 43
"saturation": 2
"[3]": {6 keys}
"hex": "545453"
"hue": 60
"rank": 4
"presence": 0.17
"lightness": 32
"saturation": 0
"[4]": {6 keys}
"hex": "848c8c"
"hue": 180
"rank": 5
"presence": 0.04
"lightness": 53
"saturation": 3
"[5]": {6 keys}
"hex": "998466"
"hue": 35
"rank": 6
"presence": 0.0
"lightness": 50
"saturation": 20
"[6]": {6 keys}
"hex": "84948c"
"hue": 150
"rank": 7
"presence": 0.0
"lightness": 54
"saturation": 6
"imageLabels": [10 items]
"[0]": {5 keys}
"count": 10019
"score": 79.48
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Rectangle"
"imageLabelId": 11
"[1]": {5 keys}
"count": 660
"score": 79.12
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Triangle"
"imageLabelId": 1
"[2]": {5 keys}
"count": 19418
"score": 78.2
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Font"
"imageLabelId": 12
"[3]": {5 keys}
"count": 2364
"score": 75.97
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Tints and shades"
"imageLabelId": 13
"[4]": {5 keys}
"count": 794
"score": 73.38
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Astronomical object"
"imageLabelId": 5
"[5]": {5 keys}
"count": 3297
"score": 69.77
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Circle"
"imageLabelId": 8
"[6]": {5 keys}
"count": 674
"score": 66.6
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Slope"
"imageLabelId": 92
"[7]": {5 keys}
"count": 2395
"score": 66.05
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Event"
"imageLabelId": 46
"[8]": {5 keys}
"count": 4979
"score": 65.74
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Science"
"imageLabelId": 180
"[9]": {5 keys}
"count": 1083
"score": 62.06
"status": "auto_verified"
"imageLabel": "Symmetry"
"imageLabelId": 176
"imageDerivatives": [6 items]
"[0]": {4 keys}
"url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/large/4287/79ca9c1dc5ca72d507e818c5c06b08a51153e469.jpg"
"width": "640"
"height": "800"
"identifier": "LARGE"
"[1]": {4 keys}
"url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/medium/4287/79ca9c1dc5ca72d507e818c5c06b08a51153e469.jpg"
"width": "320"
"height": "400"
"identifier": "MEDIUM"
"[2]": {4 keys}
"url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/nano/4287/79ca9c1dc5ca72d507e818c5c06b08a51153e469.jpg"
"width": "28"
"height": "35"
"identifier": "NANO"
"[3]": {4 keys}
"url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/small/4287/79ca9c1dc5ca72d507e818c5c06b08a51153e469.jpg"
"width": "120"
"height": "150"
"identifier": "SMALL"
"[4]": {4 keys}
"url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/tiny/4287/79ca9c1dc5ca72d507e818c5c06b08a51153e469.jpg"
"width": "60"
"height": "75"
"identifier": "TINY"
"[5]": {4 keys}
"url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/xlarge/4287/79ca9c1dc5ca72d507e818c5c06b08a51153e469.jpg"
"width": "959"
"height": "1200"
"identifier": "XLARGE"
"totalImages": 1
"objectSearchScore": 1.3129241
"opacObjectFieldSets": [40 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "accession_no"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "11797"
"[1]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "name"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"value": "Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil Degrasse Tyson"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "title"
"value": "Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil Degrasse Tyson"
"[2]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "other_name"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[3]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "artist_last_first"
"opacObjectFields": [2 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "Gamwell, Lynn"
"[1]": {1 keys}
"value": "Tyson, Neil deGrasse"
"[4]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "prod_pri_date"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"value": "2016"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [2 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "earliest_date"
"value": "2016-01-01Z"
"[1]": {2 keys}
"key": "latest_date"
"value": "2016-12-31Z"
"[5]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "prod_pri_date_notes"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[6]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "edition"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[7]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "brief_desc"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists. Sumptuous illustrations of artworks and cogent math diagrams are featured in Gamwell's comprehensive exploration."
"[8]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "measure_desc"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[9]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "credit_line"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[10]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "curr_loc_status"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"value": "Stored"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "curr_loc_status:"Stored""
"[11]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "ob_status"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "Accessioned"
"[12]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "lender"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[13]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "copyright_owner"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[14]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "copyright_type"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[15]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "copyright_start"
"opacObjectFields": [0 items]
"[16]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "copyright_expiry"
"opacObjectFields": [0 items]
"[17]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "copyright_notes"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[18]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "curr_loc"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "MPR/Level 1/Phrontisterion/MONA"
"[19]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "object_type"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"value": "Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "object_type:"Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication""
"[20]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "collection"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"value": "Rare Book Collection/Special Collections/Library"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "collection:"Rare Book Collection/Special Collections/Library""
"[21]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "prod_pri_place"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "Princeton/New Jersey/United States of America"
"[22]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "prod_pri_publisher"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "Princeton University Press"
"[23]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "physical_notes"
"opacObjectFields": [2 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "xviii, 556 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 32 cm."
"[1]": {1 keys}
"value": "Includes bibliographical references and index."
"[24]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "language"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "English"
"[25]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "isbn_issn"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "9780691165288"
"[26]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "user_sym_1"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "701.8 GAM"
"[27]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "usual_loc_being"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": "XL compactus (Optimus Prime)/Lounge/Zone 1/Ground/Moonah Offices & Storage"
"[28]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "subject_class"
"opacObjectFields": [15 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"value": "Art, Modern -- 20th century"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Art, Modern -- 20th century""
"[1]": {2 keys}
"value": "Art, Modern -- 21st century"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Art, Modern -- 21st century""
"[2]": {2 keys}
"value": "Art/Arts"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Art/Arts""
"[3]": {2 keys}
"value": "Atomism/Philosophy, Ancient"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Atomism/Philosophy, Ancient""
"[4]": {2 keys}
"value": "Composition (Art)/Art/Arts"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Composition (Art)/Art/Arts""
"[5]": {2 keys}
"value": "Computers/Computer systems"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Computers/Computer systems""
"[6]": {2 keys}
"value": "Geometry/Mathematics/Science"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Geometry/Mathematics/Science""
"[7]": {2 keys}
"value": "History"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"History""
"[8]": {2 keys}
"value": "Infinite"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Infinite""
"[9]": {2 keys}
"value": "Language and languages/Communication/Sociology/Social sciences/Civilisation"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Language and languages/Communication/Sociology/Social sciences/Civilisation""
"[10]": {2 keys}
"value": "Mathematics in art"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Mathematics in art""
"[11]": {2 keys}
"value": "Mathematics/Science"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Mathematics/Science""
"[12]": {2 keys}
"value": "Proportion"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Proportion""
"[13]": {2 keys}
"value": "Space and time in art"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Space and time in art""
"[14]": {2 keys}
"value": "Space and time/Space sciences/Science"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_class:"Space and time/Space sciences/Science""
"[29]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "subject_date"
"opacObjectFields": [0 items]
"[30]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "subject_event"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[31]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "subject_period"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[32]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "subject_object"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[33]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "subject_person"
"opacObjectFields": [11 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"value": "Alan Turing (English, b.1912, d.1954)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Alan Turing (English, b.1912, d.1954)""
"[1]": {2 keys}
"value": "Albert Einstein (b.1879, d.1955)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Albert Einstein (b.1879, d.1955)""
"[2]": {2 keys}
"value": "Albrecht Dürer (b.1471, d.1528)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Albrecht Dürer (b.1471, d.1528)""
"[3]": {2 keys}
"value": "Aleksandr Rodchenko"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Aleksandr Rodchenko""
"[4]": {2 keys}
"value": "Aristotle (Greek, b.384 BCE, d.322 BCE)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Aristotle (Greek, b.384 BCE, d.322 BCE)""
"[5]": {2 keys}
"value": "Bertrand Russell (British, b.1872, d.1970)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Bertrand Russell (British, b.1872, d.1970)""
"[6]": {2 keys}
"value": "Charles Darwin (English, b.1809, d.1882)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Charles Darwin (English, b.1809, d.1882)""
"[7]": {2 keys}
"value": "Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b.1948)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b.1948)""
"[8]": {2 keys}
"value": "Plato (Greek, b.428 BCE, d.247 BCE)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Plato (Greek, b.428 BCE, d.247 BCE)""
"[9]": {2 keys}
"value": "Sol LeWitt (b.1928, d.2007)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Sol LeWitt (b.1928, d.2007)""
"[10]": {2 keys}
"value": "Vladimir Tatlin (Russian, b.1885, d.1953)"
"opacObjectFieldAttributes": [1 items]
"[0]": {2 keys}
"key": "search"
"value": "subject_person:"Vladimir Tatlin (Russian, b.1885, d.1953)""
"[34]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "subject_place"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[35]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "assoc_person"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[36]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "assoc_place"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[37]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "assoc_event"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[38]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "assoc_object"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"[39]": {2 keys}
"identifier": "user_sym_9"
"opacObjectFields": [1 items]
"[0]": {1 keys}
"value": ""
"relationshipsCollection": {2 keys}
"relationships": [1 items]
"[0]": {4 keys}
"relatedRecords": [2 items]
"[0]": {3 keys}
"slug": "lynn-gamwell"
"title": "Lynn Gamwell"
"relatedRecordId": "9806"
"[1]": {3 keys}
"slug": "neil-degrasse-tyson"
"title": "Neil deGrasse Tyson"
"relatedRecordId": "18095"
"relationshipId": "object_prod_pri_person"
"relatedRecordType": "person"
"totalRelatedRecords": 2
"totalRelationships": 1
Topics and Themes