These are the slides our #SSE faculty Dr. Artamonov used for his public School of Science & Engineering lecture on the 16th of April, 2015.
His talk: Mathematics and art have a long historical relationship. The ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks knew about the golden ratio and regarded as an aesthetically pleasing ratio. They may have incorporated it and also some other mathematical relationships into the design of monuments including the Great Pyramid, the Parthenon and the Coliseum. This scientific influence can be traced in works of architects, artists, and designers who have been inspired by mathematics and studied mathematics as a means of complementing their works. This public lecture will be devoted to mathematical notion of the divine proportion and its appearance and applications in nature, science, art, design and architecture.
