Perspective and Passion in Art, Mathematics and Pedagogy
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Perspective and Passion in Art, Mathematics and Pedagogy
Meg DillonSouthern Polytechnic State University
Marietta GA
June 14, 2012UTBM
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Why was mathematics 300 years behind art in the study of perspecitve and projective
geometry?
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Late 12th century Macedonia
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Giotto, Lamentation Over The Dead Christ 1305
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Pentacost, The Arena Chapel
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Rules of Perspective
(1) The image of a straight line is a straight line
(2) The image of a conic section is a conic section
(3) The image of parallel lines is concurrent
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The image of a conic section is a conic
section.
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The image of a pair of parallel lines converges.
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Lorenzetti, Presentation of Christ in The Temple, 1342
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Raphael, The School At Athens, 1510
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Leonardo's illustrations for Pacioli's De divina
proportione, pub 1509
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A cone in the drawing style used during most of the 15th century
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Different Agendas
Art What an observer sees
Mathematics Space as it actually is
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Artists
Abacus Schools from late 13th c.
Brunelleschi (1377-1446) Artificial Perspective
Alberti (1404-1472) Della Pittura (1436)
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Mathematicians
Greek Mathematics
Mathematics of the Islamic Period
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From Euclid's Optics
[T]he figure enclosed by the sight-lines is a cone having its vertex at the eye and its base at the limits of
the things seen...
[T]hings seen by a larger angle appear larger, while things seen by a
smaller angle appear smaller
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Ibn al-haytham's theory of vision
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Albrecht Durer's Perspective Machine
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The same magnitude...viewed from near and from far does not appear equal...
[S]cene-painting in its exploitation of this weakness of our nature falls nothing
short of witchcraft
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The part of the soul...which puts its trust in measurement and
reckoning must be the best part of the soul.
[H]ave not measuring and numbering and weighing proved to be most gracious aids to
prevent the domination in our soul of the apparently greater or less or more or
heavier?
---Plato, The Republic
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The Elements of Euclid
A codification of what was known about geometry at the time, around 300 BC
The earliest known axiomatic treatment of mathematics
The standard upon which school mathematics was based since the middle
of the 19th century
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~100 AD Prop 5, Book II
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Book I of The Elements
23 Definitions
5 Postulates (axioms)
5 Common Notions
48 Propositions (theorems)
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Euclid's Postulates1. A straight line can be drawn from any point
to any point.2. A finite straight line can be produced
continuously in a straight line.3. One may describe a circle with any center
and any radius.4. All right angles are equal to one another.
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Euclid's Fifth PostulateThat, if a straight line falling on two straight
lines make an interior angle on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight
lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right
angles.
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Prominent AttackersEuclid 300 BC
Proclus 450 ADIbn al-Haytham 1015Omar Khayyam 1100
John Wallis 1656Lagrange 1776Legendre 1800
Gauss 1817
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Equivalents to Postulate 51. Given a line and a point not on the line,
there is exactly one parallel to the line through the point.
2. The angles of a triangle add up to two right angles.
3. There exist noncongruent similar triangles.4. Alternate interior angles created by a
transversal and two parallel lines are congruent.
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“Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your
health, your rest and the whole happiness of your life.”
Farkas Bolyai in a letter to his son János, responding to János's report that he was trying
to prove the parallel postulate
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Breakthroughson the Parallel Postulate
Discoveries of Bolyai and Lobachevsky 1820s
Riemann's Habilitation 1854
Beltrami's interpretation 1868
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Poincaré Disk Model
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Projective Geometry as Mathematics
Poncelet's Treatise 1822
Plücker's homogeneous coordinates 1831
Felix Klein's algebraic foundation 1871
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Projective Plane
(1) There exist four points no three of which are collinear
(2) Two points determine a unique line(3) Two lines intersect in a unique point
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AB
C
A' B'C'
Pappus's Theorem ~ 320 CE
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Desargues' Theorem, 1648
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What Happened Next?
HilbertEinstein
Bourbaki~ a return to The Elements
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Dalí, Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951
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Brief List of ReferencesBoyer, A History of Mathematics
Coolidge, A History of Geometrical Methods
Coxeter, Projective Geometry
Euclid, The Elements, Book I, Heath edition
Field, The Invention of Infinity
Grabiner, “Why did Lagrange `prove' the parallel postulate?” MAA Monthly, Jan 2009
Joyce, David, Euclid's Elements, interactive website
Mashaal, Maurice, Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians, American Mathematical Society, 2006.
Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics