Mathematics and Culture I

Research and Teaching in Mathematics: Conflict or Synthesis?- The Discovery and Application of Linear and Nonlinear Programming.- Italian Mathematics, Fascism and Racial Policy.- Mathematics and Facism. The Case of Berlin.- Mathematics and Culture in Russia.- Economists and Mathematics from 1494 to 1969 - Beyond the art of numeracy.- Who Said that a Mathematician Cannot Win the Nobel Prize?- From Space as Container to Space as Web.- Irrational Geometry.- Moebius Strip: From Art to Cinema.- A few Reflections on the Creation of "Moebius".- Some Organising Principles.- A Museum of Mathematics: How, Why and Where.- Pop maths all around the world.- The Mathemagical Mystery Tour: Maths in the Malls.- From Galilee to Galileo.- Mathematical Visualization and Online Experiments.- Prime Numbers and Cryptography.- Homage to Venice.- Essentiality of Mathematics for Bayesian Environmental Forecasting.- Venice-Maths.- Santa Margherita.- Mathematics & Cultures, Mathematics & Musics: a Modelfor Bronze Instruments.- Numbers in Asian Music.- Mathematics, Clinical Decisions and Public Health.- The Radon Transform and its Applications in Medicine.- Risk Analysis for Liver Surgery.

"[...] Viele Beiträge geben Einsichten, die in der heute durchaus lebhaften Diskussion über Mathematik als kulturelle Errungenschaft nicht im Zentrum stehen, sodass dieser Band eine sehr willkommene Ergänzung darstellt."F. Schweiger, Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten, 2004, Issue 197, 32-33