Beschreibung
Only school-level geometry required Provides new ways of analysing Islamic Geometric ornament Shows development and geographical range of the art Combines historical and mathematical study of Islamic art
Autorenporträt
Brian Wichmann is the author of a CD/booklet published by World Scientific on geometric patterns. He obtained a DPhil (Oxon) in Mathematics, then had a career in software engineering research at NPL before starting a retirement project of collecting all known classical Islamic geometric patterns. The collection is at tilingsearch.org. David Wade is the author of a number of books about Islamic Art and related topics. He is also responsible for the web site patterninislamicart.com which has over 4,000 photographs of patterns in Islamic Art. This is a major source of photographs for the book.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media
Heidelberger Platz 3
14197 Berlin
DE
E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
