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Cultural Approaches to Mathematics

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Selected books

Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Art: geometric aspects by Derek Hull
Call Number: 709.41 H877c
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese temple geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi; Tony Rothman; Freeman Dyson (Foreword by)
Call Number: 510.952 F955s
Publication Date: 2008-07-21
Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns by Jan A. Syed; Amer S. Salman
Call Number: 709.17 Ab18s
Publication Date: 1994-12-01
Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics by Sarah-Marie Belcastro; Carolyn Yackel (Editor)
Call Number: 746.4 C842
Publication Date: 2011-03-24

Databases

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Database of art images.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text of back issues of selected titles.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
American Anthropological Association publications.

Sample articles

Mukhopadhyay, Swapna. "The Decorative Impulse: Ethnomathematics and Tlingit Basketry." ZDM : The International Journal on Mathematics Education 41.1-2 (2009): 117-130.

Ascher, Marcia. "The Kolam Tradition: A Tradition of Figure-Drawing in Southern India Expresses Mathematical Ideas and Has Attracted the Attention of Computer Science." American Scientist 90.1 (2002): 56-63.

Datta, Sambit. "Infinite Sequences in the Constructive Geometry of Tenth-Century Hindu Temple Superstructures." Nexus Network Journal : Architecture and Mathematics 12.3 (2010): 471-483.