[Maths-Education] New E-book

[eda19]

I would advise you to go to

http://www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/vismath/

and not

http://members.tripod.com/vismath/

since the second sent me loads of unwanted adverts every time I changed a 
page, whereas the first did not.

Dave



 >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Original Message From maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>Paulus Gerdes
>Basketry, Geometry, and Symmetry in Africa and the Americas
>
>The International Art and Science Electronic Journal Visual Mathematics
>published my new book Basketry, Geometry, and Symmetry in Africa and the
>Americas as a Special E-Book issue.
>The book is available online at http://members.tripod.com/vismath/ or at
>http://www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/vismath/  by going to the link =8Cpapers=B9 and then to
>=8CSpecial E-book issue=B9 (2004).
>The book will be available soon on CD too.
>
>The book deals with the geometry and symmetries of designs and patterns
>created by mat and basket weavers in several African and American cultures.
>The type of basketry discussed is twill basketry.  The book contains the
>following chapters:
>
>Introduction
>1. Geometrical aspects of Bora basketry in the Peruvian Amazon
>2. Geometry and symmetry of mavuku baskets among the Makhuwa of Northeast
>Mozambique
>3. Spirals interwoven in ipadge basket trays among the Makhuwa (Mozambique)
>4. Circular tinhl=E8l=F2 basket trays from Manhi=E7a in the South of Mozambique:
>Geometrical virtuosity of two Changana basket weavers
>5. Exploring plaited plane patterns among the Tonga in Inhambane
>(Mozambique)
>6. Colour transformation of strip patterns in Tonga basketry (Mozambique)
>7. Plaited strip patterns on Tonga handbags in Inhambane (Mozambique) =AD
>Update 2004
>8. Geometric ornamentation and arithmetic in the Brazilian Amazon: Analysis
>of cylindrical baskets with a square base
>9. Cylindrical baskets with a square base from the Bora (Peruvian Amazon)
>10. Examples of Design Transformation: Delicately decorated seventeenth
>century Kongo baskets
>11. Examples of twill plaited patterns with spirals from the Yombe (Congo)
>12. Colourings of regular twill plaited mats and baskets: Examples from
>Mexico and Mozambique
>13 Twill plaited mats from the Mbole =AD Mongo in Northeastern Congo
>14 Some designs on twill plaited baskets and mats from Angola
>15. Some classes of twill plaited designs and patterns with sets of
>concentric toothed squares
>15.1 Nested toothed square designs on twill plaited mats and baskets
>15.2 Regular square plane patterns on twill plaited mats and baskets
>15.3 Semi-regular square plane patterns on twill plaited mats and baskets
>15.4 Strings of connected toothed squares on twill plaited mats and baskets
>Bibliography
>
>
>--
>Dr. Paulus Gerdes
>Professor of Mathematics
>Director, Ethnomathematics Research Centre
>Visiting address: Rua Marconi 109 R/C, Maputo, Mozambique
>Postal address: C.P. 915, Maputo, Mozambique
>Tel. & Fax: +258-1-49 45 04
>E-mail: pgerdes@virconn.com

Dave Miller
Department of Education
Keele University
Keele
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