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Mathematics in Art and Architecture - GENS2002
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
 
  

Description

There will be alternating Art and Architecture lectures/tutorials and Mathematics lectures/tutorials. The Art and Architecture lectures will present the appearance and/or major influence of mathematical concepts in art and architecture, and the following mathematics lectures will illuminate these concepts. The mathematical content will be: Surfaces, Platonic solids, conics, rotational, developable and minimal surfaces, topology; Symmetry, space filling; projective geometry, perspective; ratios, proportions, spirals; fractals, chaos theory; the computer in art. The mathematics tutorials will discuss problems and exercises in the conventional manner, while the art and architecture tutorials will involve students in discussion of visual material. If possible, there will be visits to museums and galleries.

Assumed knowledge: This course assumes a mathematical knowledge equivalent to that of the NSW School Certificate. In particular, students will be expected to do simple manipulations of algebraic expressions (including substituting values for the variables) and be familiar with the concept of graphing of curves.

Note: This course only runs in Summer and/or Winter sessions.

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