Arta numerelor

Abstract

Science and art are generally seen as two different fields, although they have common points, they support and complement each other. Mathematics is accepted as a science, one in which notions and the connections between notions are defined and demonstrated with great precision. The notion of Number is usually associated with that of quantity, illustrating our overwhelming orientation towards measuring and inventorying the concrete. However, throughout history, the ideas related to the Number have also meant something else, the Number being a concept that, regardless of the cultural area and the time period to which we refer, has always been associated with philosophy and magic. The construction of the Egyptian pyramids was based on the so-called polygonal numbers, of which we have presented in this article the quadratic numbers, the pentagonal numbers, the hexagonal numbers, the heptagonal numbers, the octagonal numbers, the nonagonal numbers, respectively the decagonal numbers.