Vera de Spinadel
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Vera Martha Winitzky de Spinadel (b. 1929, Buenos Aires
, Argentina
) – mathematician
; full consultant professor of mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires
; director of the research Center of Mathematics & Design (MAyDI)
, having received many I&D grants and personal grants to develop the activities of many research groups; director of Mathematics & Design Laboratory at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Buenos Aires; president of the International Mathematics & Design Association
since 1998, that publishes the Journal of Mathematics & Design twice a year; basic works on geometrical fractals and application of mathematics in architecture
and design
; her works in the field of "Metallic Means" in development of the classical Golden Proportion got wide international recognition.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
) – mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
; full consultant professor of mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires is the largest university in Argentina and the largest university by enrollment in Latin America. Founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires, it consists of 13 faculties, 6 hospitals, 10 museums and is linked to 4 high schools: Colegio Nacional de Buenos...
; director of the research Center of Mathematics & Design (MAyDI)
Centre of Mathematics and Design
Centre of Mathematics & Design , the research Centre of Mathematics & Design MAyDI was created at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1995, under the direction of Dr. Vera W...
, having received many I&D grants and personal grants to develop the activities of many research groups; director of Mathematics & Design Laboratory at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Buenos Aires; president of the International Mathematics & Design Association
International Mathematics and Design Association
The International Mathematics & Design Association was founded on August 3, 1998, Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a non-profitable civil society registered at the Argentine General Justice Inspection with the number 1656548; E-mail: ai_myd@yahoo.com.ar. Its president is Dr. Vera W. de Spinadel. It has...
since 1998, that publishes the Journal of Mathematics & Design twice a year; basic works on geometrical fractals and application of mathematics in architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
and design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
; her works in the field of "Metallic Means" in development of the classical Golden Proportion got wide international recognition.
Books
- «From the Golden Mean to Chaos», Editorial Nueva Librería, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ISBN 950-43-9329-1, 1998.
- «The Metallic Means and Design», Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics. Editora: Kim Williams. Edizioni dell’Erba, ISBN 88-86888-13-9, 1998.
- «Del Número de Oro al Caos». Editorial Nobuko S. A., ISBN 987-43-5890-4, 2003.
- «Geometría Fractal», en colaboración con Jorge G. Perera y Jorge H. Perera, con un CD de gráficos. Editorial Nobuko S. A., ISBN 987-1135-20-3, 2003.
- «From the Golden Mean to Chaos», Editorial Nobuko S. A., ISBN987-1135-48-3, 2004.
- «Geometría Fractal», jointly with Jorge G. Perera & Jorge H. Perera, Editorial Nueva Librería, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-987-1104-45-1, 2007.
Papers
- «Sistemas Estructurados y Creatividad», opening conference at the International Mathematics & Design Conference MyD-95, 23-27 October 1995, FADU, Buenos Aires, Argentina,. Proceedings ISBN 950-29-0363-3, 1996.
- «La familia de números metálicos en Diseño». Primer Seminario Nacional de Gráfica Digital, Sesión de Morfología y Matemática, FADU, UBA, 11-13 Junio de 1997. Volumen II, ISBN 950-25-0424-9.
- «On Characterization of the Onset to Chaos», Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 8, No. 10, pp. 1631-1643, 1997.
- «New Smarandache sequences», Proceedings of the First International Conference on Smarandache type Notions in Number Theory, ed. C. Dumitrescu & V. Seleacu, University of Craiova, 21-24 August 1997, American Research Press, Lupton, ISBN 1-879585-58-8, 1997, pp. 81-116.
- «Una nueva familia de números«, Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, vol. 228, Nro. 1, pp. 101-107, 1998.
- «Triangulature in Andrea Palladio», Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics on line in_Andrea_Palladio.html
- «A new family of irrational numbers with curious properties», Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, Issue # 19, pp. 33-37, ISSN 1065-82, March 1999.
- «The Metallic Means family and multifractal spectra», Nonlinear Analysis 36, pp. 721-745, 1999.
- «The Golden Mean and its many relatives», First Interdisciplinary Conference of The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics and Architecture ISAMA 99, San Sebastián, Spain, 7-11 June 1999. Editors: Nathaniel A. Friedman and Javier Barrallo. ISBN 84-930669-0-7, pp. 453-460.
- «The family of Metallic Means», Visual Mathematics, vol. I, Nro. 3, 1999
- «The family of Metallic Means», Symmetry: Culture and Science. The Quarterly International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry), vol. 10, Numbers 3-4, pp. 317-338, 1999.
- «The Metallic Means family and Renormalization Group Techniques», Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Suppl. 1, 2000, pp. S194-S209.
- «Fracciones continuas y la teoría de las proporciones de Palladio», ICVA Primer Congreso Virtual de Arquitectura, 1 December 1999 to 31 January 2000
- «Half-regular Continued Fraction Expansions and Design», Journal of Mathematics & Design, vol. 1, No. 1, March 2001.
- «Continued Fraction Expansions and Design», The Proceedings of Mathematics & Design 2001, The Third International Conference, July 3-5, 2001, The School of Architecture & Building, The School of Computing & Mathematics, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, ISBN 0 7300 2526 8.
- «Geometric representation of purely periodic Metallic Means», en colaboración con Martín L. Benarroch, Walter L. Geler and Stella M. Sirianni, Journal of Mathematics & Design, vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2001, ISSN 1515-7881.
- «The metallic means family and forbidden symmetries», International Mathematical Journal, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 279-288, 2002.
- «The Set of Silver Integers», Journal of Mathematics & Design, vol. 2, No. 1, 2002.
- «Symmetry Groups in Mathematics, Architecture and Art», Special issue of the papers presented at the Matomium Euro-Workshop 2002. Edited by the Department of Architecture Sint-Lucas, Bruselas, Bélgica. Symmetry: Art and Science, vol. 2 (new series), No. 1-4, pp. 385-403, 2002, ISBN 1447-607X
- «Geometría Fractal y Geometría Euclidiana», Revista de Educación y Pedagogía, Medellín, Colombia, Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Educación, vol. XV, Nro. 35, pp. 83-93, Enero-Abril 2003, ISSN 0121-7593.
- «Number theory and Art», ISAMA-Bridges 2003. Conference Proceedings of Meeting Alhambra, University of Granada, Granada, España. Editors: Javier Barrallo, Nathaniel Friedman, Reza Sarhangi, Carlo Séquin, José Martínez and Juan A. Maldonado. ISBN 84-930669-1-5. pp. 415-423, 2003.
- «La familia de Números Metálicos», Cuadernos del Cimbage, Instituto de Investigaciones en Estadística y Matemática Actuarial, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, UBA, No. 6, pp. 17-45, ISSN 1666-5112, May 2004.
- «Generalized Silver Means Subfamily», Journal of Mathematics & Design, vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 53-59, 2007. Editorial Nueva Librería ISBN 987-987-1104-52-9.
- «Orígenes Históricos del Número de Plata y sus Aplicaciones en Arquitectura», Journal of Mathematics & Design, vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 93-99, 2007. Editorial Nueva Librería ISBN 987-987-1104-52-9.
- «Conceptos fractales aplicados al Diseño», Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional de Matemáticas en Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 30 Mayo al 1 de Junio 2007, pp. 137-146, ISBN 978-84-7493-381-9.
- «Aplicaciones de Geometría Fractal en el campo de la construcción», Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional de Matemáticas en Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 30 Mayo al 1 de Junio 2007, pp. 215-220, ISBN 978-84-7493-381-9.
- «Espirales asociadas a los Números Metálicos», en colaboración con Antonia Redondo Buitrago, 5th Mathematics & Design International Conference, Blumenau, Brazil, 1-4 July 2007, ISBN 978-85-7114-175-4.