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Mathematics and Arts: Connections between Theory and Practice in the Medieval Islamic World

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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
423 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0315-0860

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✦ Synopsis


Two mathematical sources, On the Geometric Constructions Necessary for the Artisan, by Abu'l-Wafā ' (ca. 940-998), and the anonymous work, On Interlocks of Similar or Corresponding Figures (ca. 1300), provide us with insight into the collaboration between mathematicians and artisans in the Islamic world. In this paper I present a series of quotations from these two sources, which show that mathematicians taught geometry to artisans by means of cut-and-paste methods and of geometrical figures that had the potential of being used for ornamental purposes. C 2000 Academic Press Matematikle ilgili iki kaynak bize İslam dünyasında matematikçiler ile sanatkarlar arasındaki işbirligi konusunda aydınlatıcı bilgiler sunuyor. Bu kaynaklardan biri Abu'l-Vefa (ca. 940-998) tarafından yazılan "Sanatkarın ihtiyaç duydugu geometrik çizimler," digeri anonim bir yazarın kaleme aldıgı " İçiçe geçen benzer veya karşılıklı şekiller" (ca. 1300). Bu iki kaynaktan derledigim bir dizi alıntıya yer verdigim bu makalede görüyoruz ki matematikçiler sanatkarlara kes-ve-yapıştır yöntemiyle geometri ögretirken, aynı zamanda önerdikleri geometrik şekillerin bezeme sanatlarında kullanılabilir olmasına özen gösteriyorlardı.


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