Las mates casan mejor con la música que con el arte - como arte entiendo las artes plásticas - . Pero también el arte plástico tiene sus puntos matemáticos sin la comprensión de los cuales no se puede entender la representación gráfica.
Ahora empezamos con las perspectiva. La perspectiva es uno de los puntos fuertes de la representación gráfica. El uso de la perspectiva ha sido determinante en la confección de las maneras de ver el mundo y de la historia del arte.
"The year 1714 also marks the time in whichTaylor
was elected Secretary to the Royal Society. It was a position that Taylor held from January
14 of that year until October 21, 1718 when he resigned, partly for health
reasons and his lack of interest in the rather demanding position. That time
period marks what must be his most mathematically productive time. Two books,
which appeared in 1715, Methodus incrementorum directa et inversa and Linear
Perspective are extremely important in the history of mathematics.
Taylor
made several visits to France .
These were made partly for health reasons and partly to visit friends he had
made there. He met Pierre Remond de Montmort and corresponded with him on
various mathematical topics after his return. In particular, they discussed
infinite series and probability. Taylor
also corresponded with de Moivre on probability and at times there was a
three-way discussion going on between them.
Taylor
added to mathematics a new branch now called the "calculus of finite
differences", invented integration by parts, and discovered the celebrated
series known as Taylor 's
expansion. These ideas appear in his first book mentioned previously. Other
important ideas, which are contained in said book, are singular solutions to
differential equations, a change of variables formula, and a way of relating
the derivative of a function to the derivative of the inverse function. Also
contained is a discussion on vibrating strings, an interest which almost
certainly comes from his early love of music.
Taylor also devised the basic principles
of perspective in Linear Perspective (1715). The main theorem in this work was
that the projection of a straight line not parallel to the plane of the picture
passes through its intersection and its vanishing point" (más).
Ahora empezamos con las perspectiva. La perspectiva es uno de los puntos fuertes de la representación gráfica. El uso de la perspectiva ha sido determinante en la confección de las maneras de ver el mundo y de la historia del arte.
"The year 1714 also marks the time in which
Between
1712 and 1724, Taylor
published 13 articles on topics as diverse as describing experiments in
capillary action, magnetism and thermometers. He gave an account of an
experiment to discover the law of magnetic attraction (1715) and an improved
method for approximating the roots of an equation by giving a new method for
computing logarithms (1717).