Estepona Town Hall and the Descubre Foundation will inaugurate the Al-Andalus Mathematical Journey exhibition at the Casa de las Tejerinas this Wednesday 15th at noon, an exhibition that will be open to the public until March 31st, as reported by the Consistory.
The exhibition links art, science and heritage with mathematics in a journey through Andalusia’s rich monumental heritage from the Caliphate, Almohad and Nasrid periods.
The inauguration will be attended by the Deputy Mayor of the Socio-Cultural Area, María Begoña Ortiz, the Director of the Descubre Foundation, Teresa Cruz Sánchez, and the project’s Scientific Director, Álvaro Martínez Sevilla, who will lead a tour after the exhibition opening.
Also present will be principals and math teachers from the municipality’s public and private secondary schools, such as Monterroso, Mediterraneo, Mar de Alborán, Puerta del Mar and Profesor T. Hormigo, as well as Juan XXIII, San José, Internacional Atalaya, Atlas American School of Málaga and Queens British Grammar School.
The exhibition, which will be open to the public until March 31 in Estepona, offers a fresh look at buildings from the Andalusian period, to which a “layer” of mathematical concepts is applied, opening the door to a better understanding of their motivation, whether defensive, religious or decorative.
Through 26 panels, visitors can appreciate the variety of cultural and social concepts that are expressed and synthesized in different mathematical objects and functions, helping to understand, recognize and interpret them, beyond the simple identification of the purely geometric designs that appear on the walls of Andalusian palaces.
Thus, from the Caliphate period onwards, the point of reference is the Cordoba mosque and, more specifically, its domes, arches and monumental doors.
For the Almohad and Mudéjar periods, it’s the Royal Alcazar, the Torre del Oro and Seville Cathedral, with the Giralda (former minaret) and the doors that have been preserved from the Seville aljama.
Finally, Granada’s Alhambra represents the Nasrid period.
More specifically, the exhibition addresses various mathematical concepts such as symmetry, proportion, hierarchy and order, modulation, tessellation, friezes, muqarnas, knots, arcs (eccentric, pointed…), polygons (star-shaped), geodesics, orientation (geographical, astronomical and solar), Releaux’s triangle, homothety, curves in decoration and anthropometry.
In addition, cross-influences are analyzed through the concept of the “matmeme”, i.e. mathematical uses that are mimetically reproduced over time in designs, styles or proportions.
An opportunity to link monumental heritage with mathematical ideas such as symmetry, order, geodesics, modulation, anthropometry, polygons and polyhedra.
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