 Can There Be Any Relationships Between Mathematics and Architecture?Mario Salvadori
Chapter Chapter 2 in Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, 2015, pp 25-29 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The author, a pure mathematician and a structural engineer, tries to prove that there cannot be any relationships between pure mathematics and architecture, by first mentioning the variety of mathematics invented by man over the centuries. He defines pure mathematics, illustrating it by examples from Euclidean geometry and non-Euclidean geometries and pointing out the essential reality of the most abstract mathematics, including the essential importance of Riemannian geometry to the Einsteinian general theory of relativity. He then considers the essential quality of concreteness of all architecture and of its many facts, pointing out that the only real architecture must be built architecture and that no theoretician of architecture is an architect. Finally, he takes off his ‘mathematician hat’ and put on his ‘structural engineering hat’ and suddenly realizes that, yes, applied mathematics is so important to architecture that, if mathematics had not been invented, architects would have been compelled to invent it themselves. Keywords: Euclidian Geometry; Pure Mathematics; Human Endeavour; Human Spirit; Real Mathematics (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-00137-1_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00137-1_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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