The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

Abstract

1. Medieval mathematics and optics and the Renaissance style in art 2. Building, drawing and 'artificial perspective' 3. Through the wall: Masaccio's Trinity fresco 4. Piero della Francesca's mathematics 5. Piero della Francesca's perspective treatise 6. Practitioners and patricians 7. The Professionals move in 8. Beyond the Ancients 9. Fragmented perspective Appendix 1 The abacists' favourite scalene triangle: 13, 14, 15 Bibliography