Book review of: A. A. Mazzotti, All sides to an oval: properties, parameters, and Borromini's mysterious construction

DOI10.1007/S00283-018-9840-4zbMATH Open1409.00045OpenAlexW2900586589WikidataQ128986084 ScholiaQ128986084MaRDI QIDQ666906FDOQ666906

Authors: Roberta Spallone, Marco Vitali 

Publication date: 12 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9840-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) External book reviews (00A17) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) History of geometry (51-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to geometry (51-01) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to convex and discrete geometry (52-01)

Cites Work

• Ovals for any given proportion in architecture: a layout possibly known in the sixteenth century
• What Borromini might have known about ovals. Ruler and compass constructions
• A survey and comparison of traditional piecewise circular approximations to the ellipse
• On Serlio's constructions of ovals.

Cited In (1)

• All Sides to an Oval

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