sea mirror of circle measurements
Borgesian poetry found on page 290 of George Gheverghese Joseph’s book “The Crest of the Peacock, The Non-European Roots of Mathematics”, in the…
Category Archives: books
air colours
The most interesting books I have invariably come from messy bookstores, where known topics have random and unlikely neighbours, for no reason other…
ultimate question
The more I think about it, the more I understand that most of the things that really interest me go back to one…
art as injunction ?
Thoughtprovoking remarks taken from the notes to chapter 2 of ‘Laws of Form‘ by G. Spencer Brown:
“It may be helpful at this…
the origin of the term visual music
While doing research I was sidetracked into one of those detail questions that can take a while to resolve: when was the term…
Malevich and the evolution of the eye
“It is possible that the evolution of the given apparatus called man, in the unknown abyss of the prehistoric times of its development,…
darwin among the machines
The continued reading of Lewis Mumford brought me to a text he discusses in part two of his epic “The Myth of the…