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Authors: Michael S. Schneider
ISBN-13: 9780060926717, ISBN-10: 0060926716
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: November 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Michael S. Schneider is an educator developing new perceptions of nature, science, art, and mathematics, holding workshops for teachers, artists, architects, and children concerning nature's numerical language. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a Master's Degree in Math Education from the University of Florida. He was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in India and taught in public schools for eleven years. An education writer and computer consultant, he designed the geometry harmonizing the statues at the entrance to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where he lives.
Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. A Beginner's Guide to Constructing, the Universe shows you:
In this book you will find something that cannot be obtained elsewhere, a complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators.
Acknowledgments | ||
Geometry and the Quest for Reality | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Monad: Wholly One | 1 |
2 | Dyad: It Takes Two to Tango | 21 |
3 | Triad: Three-Part Harmony | 38 |
4 | Tetrad: Mothersubstance | 60 |
5 | Pentad: Regeneration | 96 |
6 | Hexad: Structure-Function-Order | 178 |
7 | Heptad: Enchanting Virgin | 221 |
8 | Octad: Periodic Renewal | 267 |
9 | Ennead: The Horizon | 301 |
10 | Decad: Beyond Number | 323 |
Epilogue: Now That You've Constructed the Universe . . . | 347 |