The shadow of Euclid on architecture

DOI10.1007/S00283-013-9376-6MaRDI QIDQ2249489zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kim Williams, Sylvie Duvernoy

Publication date 2 July 2014

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9376-6

zbMATH Keywords

measurementspractical mathematicsstereotomyEuclid's Elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and architecture (00A67) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of convex and discrete geometry (52-03)

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