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Science 20 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5516, pp. 445 - 446
DOI: 10.1126/science.1054938
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MATHEMATICS AND ART:
Algorithms of Boundless Beauty

A review by Gregory Buck

Arabesques Decorative Art in Morocco
Jean-Marc Castéra
ACR [Art, Création, Réalisation], Paris, 1999. 480 pp. 680 FF, EUR 103.67. ISBN 2-86770-124-4.

This coffee-table book offers a stunningly presented sample of Islamic tiling and architecture from Morocco along with mathematical analyses of the artists' myriad approaches to the geometry.
The author is in the Department of Mathematics, Saint Anselm College, Box 1641, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, NH 03102-1310, USA. E-mail: gbuck{at}anselm.edu

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