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xiv Bolts from the Blue Our title refers to a singular spark of inspiration in the creative synergy of the arts and mathematics. For example: The invention of logarithms came on the world as a bolt from the blue. No previous work had led up to it, foreshadowed it or heralded its arrival. It stands isolated, breaking in upon human thought abruptly without borrowing from the work of other intellects or following known lines of mathematical thought. 1 1 Inaugural address by Lord Moulton, on the 300th anniversary of the invention of logarithms (a radically new way to multiply numbers) by John Napier, Edinburgh, 1914. Published as “The invention of logarithms,” in Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume, p. 3. Also quoted by Eli Maor, in: The Story of a Number, Princeton, 1994, p. 13.
Bolts from the Blue xv Contents FOREWORD vii PREFACE xiii INTRODUCTION 1 1. The Canon of Lespugue 11 2. The Bethels of Scotland 33 3. Mathematical Calligraphy 51 4. The Geometry of Angels 65 5. Galileo’s Father 79 6. The Fractals of Paris 95 CONCLUSION 105 BIBLIOGRAPHY 109 Index 123
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