“doris schattschneider”

From the reviews of the hardcover edition: ... This conference ... to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Escher resulted in an immensely interesting collection of articles ... Although Escher himself is no longer among us, M.C.Escher's Legacy, like a garden of continually blooming flowers, a... More

Doris Schattschneider's classic "M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (1990) is the most penetrating study of Escher's work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called the regular division of the p... More

One of the most popular artists of the 20th century, M. C. Escher, leaves a rich legacy. The centennial celebration of his birth, held in Rome and Ravello in 1998, gave testimony to the keen interest and new insight into his work, and showcased a number of contemporary artists and scientists whose w... More

This volume is a collection of articles about dynamic geometry: active, exploratory geometry carried out with interactive computer software. This software has had a profound effect on classroom teaching wherever it has been introduced. Unconstrained parts of the configurations are moveable - they ca... More

Improve your algebra and problem-solving skills with A COMPANION TO CALCULUS Every chapter in this companion provides the conceptual background and any specific algebra techniques you need to understand and solve calculus problems related to that topic. Verbal descriptions, diagrams, graphs, pictur... More

This book is a provocative contribution to contemporary ethics and moral psychology, challenging fundamental assumptions about character dating to Aristotle. John Doris draws on an array of social scientific research, especially experimental social psychology, to argue that people often grossly over... More

This is a fascinating novel of love and ecology, from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, first visited in her "Canopus in Argos" quintet of novels in the 1980s, and in 'Mara and Dann', of which this is a sequel, in 1999. The eart... More