Palladio, Pythagoreanism and Renaissance Mathematics

Galileo ’ s Muse : Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts Reviewed by Anthony Phillips

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is a pivotal figure in the development of Western science. Albert Einstein called him “the father of modern physics—indeed, of modern science altogether” [5]. More recently, Stephen Hawking wrote: “Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science” [13]. Galileo’s trial and condemnation by the Inquisition in 1633 have...

Book Review: The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance, Volume 47, Number 1

spective image in a frame looks like a window into a three-dimensional world. The image is completely defined by the size of the window and the position of the viewer’s eye: each detail of the world visible beyond the frame appears at the spot where the straight line joining it to the eye crosses the plane of the picture. The Invention of Infinity shows us a famous woodcut by Dürer, dated 1525,...

Extensible Graphical Editors for Palladio

Palladio is an approach to design and performance prediction of software architectures. An important part of the Palladio’s tooling—the Palladio Bench— are its graphical GMF-based editors. In contrast to rudimentary tree-based editors, they enable a more intuitive creation of models even for less experienced developers. However, the maintenance of the GMFbased editors has become cumbersome beca...

Revolution and renaissance.

Virtualization Renaissance

ing from embedded to server systems. Enterprises commonly employ virtual LANs and private networks (VLANs, VPNs). System area networks use storage virtualization to simplify the management of complex, heterogeneous storage configurations. Virtualization technologies encompass a variety of mechanisms and techniques used to decouple the architecture and user-perceived behavior of hardware and sof...