Albrecht Dürer a Renaissance Mathematician?

A lecture by Thony Christie, Project AWE, June 28th, 2018
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Albrecht Dürer is indeed one of the most well known painters and printmakers in art history but he also did write and publish three significant mathematical books. Beyond this he was an integral member of a group of important Renaissance mathematicians in his hometown of Nürnberg in the first quarter of the sixteenth century.
In this talk Thony Christie will investigate the origins of Dürer’s fascination with mathematics, his uses of it and his relationships with his fellow Nürnberger mathematicians. We will consider the factors that make his Underweisung der Messung mis den Zirkel und Richtscheyt (Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Straightedge) an important publication in the history of mathematics.