The scant number of drawings and the absence of any theoretical treatises on the architecture of the pre-Islamic world make the late fifteenth-century Timurid pattern scroll in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library an exceedingly valuable source of information. In the course of her analysis of the scroll, Necipoglu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmiss...(展开全部)

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poe...(展开全部)

Application of the concepts and methods of topology and geometry have led to a deeper understanding of many crucial aspects in condensed matter physics, cosmology, gravity and particle physics. This book can be considered an advanced textbook on modern applications and recent developments in these fields of physical research. Written as a set of largely self-contained extensi...(展开全部)

An exploration of the construction and meaning of Islamic geometric patterns. Throughout their long history the craft traditions of the Islamic world evolved a multitude of styles applied to a great variety of media but always with unifying factors that make them instantly recognizable. Harmony is central. There are two key aspects to the visual structure of Islamic design--cal...(展开全部)

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. As Venturi's ""gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,"" Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Thre...(展开全部)

In Classical China, crafted artifacts offered a material substrate for abstract thought as graphic paradigms for social relationships. Focusing on the fifth to second centuries B.C., Martin Powers explores how these paradigms continued to inform social thought long after the material substrate had been abandoned. In this detailed study, the author makes the claim that artifacts...(展开全部)

米哈伊尔•米哈伊洛维奇•波斯特尼可夫(1927-2004)Михаил Михайлович Постников(1927-2004) 数学物理科学博士、教授 1965年至2004年在莫斯科大学数学力学系高等几何学与拓扑学工作。 苏联列宁奖金获得者（1967） М. М. 波斯特尼可夫1927年10月27日出生。1945年毕业于莫斯科大学数学力学系。1945年至947年在莫斯科大学数学力学系数学部读研究生，1947年至1949年在苏联科学院斯捷克洛夫数学研究所读研究生。1949年通过副博士论文答辩（导师Л. С. 邦德里亚金），且从那时起就在苏联科学院斯捷克洛夫数学研究所几何学与拓扑学研究室工作（目前，是高级研究员）。1953年通过数学物理科学博士论文答辩。从1965年起在莫斯科大学数学力学系高等几何学与拓扑学教研室担任教授。 1957年为表彰М. ...(展开全部)