Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index
The reasoning architect: mathematics, science, and art in architecture -- Primitive notions: mathematics in preclassical civilization -- The whole heaven a number: Greek philosophy and mathematics -- Theory into practice: Greek geometry and classical architecture -- By force of reason: logic and deduction -- Order from chaos: mathematics and architecture in the Middle Ages -- The sense of proportion: renaissance mathematics and architecture -- A new perspective: art and science in the renaissance -- The enterprise of science: the scientific revolution and the Baroque -- An ordered universe: enlightenment -- The world in a box: mathematical models and nineteenth-century science -- Finding the best: our century and mathematics -- The postmodern condition: reason and architecture after modernism