TY  - GEN
AU  - Andersen, Kirsti
AU  - Blåsjö, Viktor (Tr.)
TI  - Optical illusions in Rome: a mathematical travel guide
SN  - 9781470452674
U1  - 701 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Providence, Rhode Islands
PB  - Mathematical Association of America Press
KW  - Optical illusions
KW  - Trompe l'oeil painting
KW  - Italy--Rome
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Optical illusions in art
N1  - Includes notes, bibliography and sources of illustrations
N2  - Kirsti Andersen's Optical Illusions in Rome: A Mathematical Travel Guide is a book that any mathematician traveling to Rome and everyone leading a mathematical tour abroad that includes Rome will want to have on hand. She describes a number of places in Rome where mathematics has helped create the effects of trompe l'oeil two-dimensionally on walls or ceilings or even in three-dimensional settings. She also describes the mathematics behind Bernini's design of the oval at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City and the mathematics of various anamorphoses. I wish this book had been available at the time of the MAA's Mathematical Study Tour of Italy, where we saw a number of the sites she mentions, but without the benefit of this resource. 

https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/optical-illusions-in-rome-a-mathematical-travel-guide
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