Imagine math 8: dreaming Venice

This eighth volume of Imagine Math is different from all the previous ones. The reason is very clear: in the last two years, the world changed, and we still do not know what the world of tomorrow will look like. Difficult to make predictions. This volume has a subtitle Dreaming Venice. Venice, the dream city of dreams, that miraculous image of a city on water that resisted for hundreds of years, has become in the last two years truly unreachable. Many things tie this book to the previous ones. Once again, this volume also starts like Imagine Math 7, with a homage to the Italian artist Mimmo Paladino who created exclusively for the Imagine Math 8 volume a new series of ten original and unique works of art dedicated to Piero della Francesca. Many artists, art historians, designers and musicians are involved in the new book, including Linda D. Henderson and Marco Pierini, Claudio Ambrosini and Davide Amodio. Space also for comics and mathematics in a Disney key. Many applications, from Origami to mathematical models for world hunger. Particular attention to classical and modern architecture, with Tullia Iori. As usual, the topics are treated in a way that is rigorous but captivating, detailed and full of evocations. This is an all-embracing look at the world of mathematics and culture. Cover image: M. Paladino, Senza titolo, codice MP P20041 (2020) tecnica mista su tela, 120,00 x 100 cm. Incorniciata misura 104 x 124 cm.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Part I Homage to Mimmo Paladino -- 8 Works by Mimmo Paladino -- Mimmo Paladino -- Il Principio Della Prospettiva -- References -- Part II Dreaming in Venice -- Dreaming Venice -- References -- The Napoleonic Fresco in Palazzo Loredan, Thinkingof the Bicentennial -- MOSE: The Defence System to Safeguard Venice and Its Lagoon -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Venice Lagoon -- 3 A Wounded Lagoon -- 4 A Long Story -- 5 Defence from Floods: Mobile Barriers at the Lagoon Inlets -- 6 How Do the Barriers Work

7 Recent Times -- 8 Since 2006 a Comparison with Other Countries Involved in Coastal Defence -- Part III Art and Mathematics -- The Rise of Abstractionism: Art and Mathematics -- 1 ``Breaking the Ties with the Concrete and Tangible'' -- 2 Italian Mathematicians Contribute to Construct a European Culture -- 2.1 Felice Casorati -- 2.2 Eugenio Beltrami -- 3 From Edgard Degas to Shigefumi Mori -- References -- Aestheticizing an Einsteinian World: The Idea of Space-Time in Russian Literary Theory and in Art Criticism -- 1 The Chronotope in Literary Theory and Beyond: Bakhtin

2 The Icon as a Chronot…