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SUMMARY: Durer and his mathematics - Mihaly Hujter (Budapest)
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DESCRIPTION: Durer was a great painter\, engraver and woodcutter. Though h
 is father was Hungarian\, he was German\, and he lived in Nuremberg (1471-
 1528). He was a master of perspective\, and he knew many other methods to 
 give 3D feeling to his pictures\, as well. One of his famous sayings is th
 is: "Geometry is the right foundation of all painting\; I have decided to 
 teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art". In 15
 25 he published a book on descriptive geometry. Among others\, he gave con
 structions for regular polygons\, precise methods for drawing conics\, and
  the "net" constructions of the surfaces of polytopes. Durer's famous conj
 ecture is still unsolved. This is strongly related to the theory of planar
  graphs and spanning trees. \nDurer's book is also useful for the architec
 ts. Three paradoxes concerning ellipses will also be discussed in the talk
 . \n\n\n
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