Number 9: The Search for the Sigma Code: In Search for the Sigma Code - Softcover

Balmond, Cecil

 
9783791340678: Number 9: The Search for the Sigma Code: In Search for the Sigma Code
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3791340670 ISBN 13: 9783791340678
Verlag: Prestel Verlag, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embark on a journey through myth, legend, and religion. Enjil s adventures lead readers to an appreciation of symmetry within asymmetry, classical ideas, and modern impulses. Along the way Balmond redefines arithmetic for the lay person and opens the gateway to further discoveries.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

CECIL BALMOND collaborates with architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito and Daniel Libeskind and carries out his own research and design projects through Arup Ì s Advanced Geometry Unit. He has received numerous awards for his work, and has taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and the Yale School of Architecture. He is currently Deputy Chairman of Ove Arup and Partners Limited and Cret Professor of Architecture at PennDesignat the University of Pennsylvania.

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Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embark on a journey through myth, legend, and religion. Enjil s adventures lead readers to an appreciation of symmetry within asymmetry, classical ideas, and modern impulses. Along the way Balmond redefines arithmetic for the lay person and opens the gateway to further discoveries.

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Verlag
Prestel Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3791340670
ISBN 13 
9783791340678
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
236
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