Dialogues about geometry and light

DOI10.3254/978-1-61499-647-7-1MaRDI QIDQ2966214zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Bermudez, Jacob Chevalier Drori, Ulf Leonhardt

Publication date 6 March 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05086

zbMATH Keywords

geometry and light

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02) Geometric optics (78A05) Physical optics (78A10) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Special relativity (83A05) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: Throughout human history, people have used sight to learn about the world, but only in relatively recent times the science of light has been developed. Egyptians and Mesopotamians made the first known lenses out of quartz, giving birth to what was later known as optics. On the other hand, geometry is a branch of mathematics that was born from practical studies concerning lengths, areas and volumes in the early cultures, although it was not put into axiomatic form until the 3rd century BC. In this work, we will discuss the connection between these two timeless topics and show some "new things in old things". There has been several works in this direction, but taking into account the didactic approach of the Enrico Fermi Summer School, we would like to address the subject and our audience in a new light.

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