Download or read book Mathematizing Space written by Vincenzo De Risi and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012, on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age'. The conference was a joint effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Centro die Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (Pisa).