Mathematical excursions to the world's great buildings / Alexander J. Hahn.

Author: Hahn, Alexander, 1943-

Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.

Descriptionix, 317 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Note:Humanity awakening: sensing form and creating structures -- Greek geometry and Roman engineering -- Architecture inspired by faith -- Transmission of mathematics and transition in architecture -- The Renaissance: architecture and the human spirit -- A new architecture: materials, structural analysis, computers, and design -- Basic calculus and is application to the analysis of structures.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-310) and index.

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