A Beginners Guide to Constructing th..., Michael S. Schneider
A Beginners Guide to Constructing th..., Michael S. Schneider
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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

Author: Michael S. Schneider

Narrator: Al Kessel

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/10/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Mathematics


Synopsis

Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe shows you:

● Why cans, pizza, and manhole covers are round.

● Why one and two weren't considered numbers by the ancient Greeks.

● Why squares show up so often in goddess art and board games.

● What property makes the spiral the most widespread shape in nature, from embryos and hair curls to hurricanes and galaxies.

● How the human body shares the design of a bean plant and the solar system.

● And much more.

About Michael S. Schneider

Michael S. Schneider is an educator developing new perceptions of nature, science, art, and mathematics, holding workshops for teachers, artists, architects, and children concerning nature's numerical language. He has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a master's degree in math education from the University of Florida. He was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in India and taught in public schools for eleven years. An education writer and computer consultant, he designed the geometry harmonizing the statues at the entrance to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where he lives.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on March 13, 2010

I have just finished reading this book, and I like some parts of it. After getting over my initial disappointment, I realized that I had expectations from its title, and the title simply is misleading. The book is really about geometric patterns in our culture and in ancient and other modern culture......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on February 02, 2015

This is a wonderfully accessible book that takes each of the numbers from one to ten and devotes a chapter to the symbology and geometry behind it. The author does an amazing job condensing a vast amount of historical and mathematical information into a concise and highly readable text. He is a prof......more

Goodreads review by Rebekah on October 21, 2007

I was lucky enough to chance upon a free copy of this book. It's amazing and wonderful. It takes you through the basic numbers, showing you how to construct a regular polygon using only a compass and straight edge to emphasize how everything emerges from one. Everything is connected in that way. Eve......more

Goodreads review by Fayren on February 17, 2009

Whoever thinks our world is just full of chaos should read this book! It's all actually magically organized.......more

Goodreads review by Paige on January 05, 2022

I read this book several times having a paranoid nature and some math ability no doubt I am going to read books linked to sacred geometry. There are lots of connections in math to keep a paranoiac mind occupied (better than worrying about mob or CIA) of course I have enough of skeptical nature to no......more