Mathematics of Beauty.
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Lessons
Here is the class outline:
1. Introduction |
2. Beauty Our Greatest Weapon in the Culture Wars |
3. Mathematics as the Science of Pattern |
4. Analysis and Synthesis |
5. Emergence |
6. Grasping the Whole- Loving Knowledge |
7. The Beauty of Three |
8. What influences culture |
9. Liturgy and culture. Victorian gothic revival |
10. Faith Freedom Tradition |
11. Midterm Exam |
12. Symbolism |
13. Rose Windows and the Christian Star Pattern |
14. Symbolism of Mathematical Operations |
15. The Rose Window of Lausanne Cathedral |
16. Putting it all together |
17. Quantitative Number and Units of Measurement |
18. Geometry and Beauty |
19. The Westminster Pavement and Cosmati Pavements |
20. Byzantine-Arab-Norman churches of 12th century Sicily |
21. Assignments |
22. Reading the Book of the Word, Reading the Book of Nature |
23. Boethius: De Institutione Arithmetica I |
24. Boethius De Arithmetica - II |
25. Examples of Proportion in Art and Architecture |
26. Boethius: De Institutione Musica |
27. Musical proportion in architecture and the culture |
28. Illustrating Wittkower |
29. Decline and Rise |
30. Designing for Community |
31. Conclusion |