This anthology fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between the mathematical and artistic
approaches in the field where mathematical and artistic thinking and practice merge. The
articles included highlight the most significant current ideas and phenomena providing a
multifaceted and extensive snapshot of the field and indicating how interdisciplinary
approaches are applied in the research of various cultural and artistic phenomena. The
discussions are related for example to the fields of aesthetics anthropology art history
art theory artistic practice cultural studies ethno-mathematics geometry mathematics new
physics philosophy physics study of visual illusions and symmetry studies. Further the
book introduces a new concept: the interdisciplinary aesthetics of mathematical art which the
editors use to explain the manifold nature of the aesthetic principles intertwined in these
discussions.
