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LITOMYŠL

LITOMYŠL

- The Renaissance castle in Litomyšl. - Bedřich Smetana. The music through sign language. - Music, Mathematics and Physics. - The Castle's Brewery. Beer's fabrication process and organic chemistry.

SEGOVIA

SEGOVIA

- The historical time of the construction of the aqueduct. - The Roman buildings. - The architecture of Vitruvius. - The construction of the aqueduct. - The Golden and the Cordovan rectangle. - Antonio Machado in Segovia. - READING CLUB: Los arcos del agua (The water arches).

CRESPI D'ADDA

CRESPI D'ADDA

- What is Crespi. - Living in Crespi, living in a working class town. - In Crespi like in Manhattan: non-Euclidean metric. - The Crespi family. - The energy produced by the water. - The Futurist Manifesto. - The Futurist art.

BERGEN

BERGEN

- The historical period of the fourteenth century. - Hanseatic League in the city of Bergen. - Bryggen in Bergen today. - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. - E-commerce. Network Security. - Gamification: Patrician III, the Empire of the seas.

BRNO

BRNO

- The Villa Tugendhat in Brno. - Mies Van der Rohe and the Bauhaus. - The construction of the golden rectangle. - The golden rectangle in Villa Tugendhat. - The Greek cross and the square. Escher's mosaics.

PRAGUE

PRAGUE

- The numbering systems. - The Babylonian civilization. - The measurement of time in Prague's clock. Schwabacher numbers. - Characters in the watch. - The position of the Sun and Earth. Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.

TELČ

TELČ

- The movements in the plane: translations, rotations and symmetries. - The square of Telc and the houses. - The Spanish cards. - More symmetries in functions and cards. - Welcome to the world of numerical sequences.

ZD'AR NAD SÁZAVOU

ZD'AR NAD SÁZAVOU

- The regular decagon and pentagon. - The golden measure. - Dali and the golden number. - The Chapel Zelená Hora in Zd'ar nad Sázavou. - Geometric shapes and golden ratio in Zelená Hora.

LEDNICE

LEDNICE

- The University of Gregor Mendel and gardens of Lednice. - Garden design and geometric shapes. - Calculating with fractions in the gardens of Lednice.

ČESKÝ KRUMLOV

ČESKÝ KRUMLOV

- Circumference, ellipse, hyperbola and parabola. - Apollonius of Perga. - Section of a cylinder. The method of the gardener. Hypatia. - The revolving auditorium in Český Krumlov. - Acoustic and optical properties of an ellipse.

BARCELONA

BARCELONA

- Gaudí. - Parabola, catenary. - Geogebra. - Funicular arch and Catenary arch. - Scales, weights and lengths.

MADRID

MADRID

- Philip II, Juan de Herrera, Pompeo Leoni, ... - The legend of St. Quentin. - Philip II and statistics. - Plant of the Escorial. - Constructions with ruler and compass. Geogebra. - Fresh from the library: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Euclid. - Arithmetic and geometric progressions. - Armillary sphere.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

- Baroque of Santiago de Compostela. - Compostela in Literature. - Spirals and ovals. - Volume of cylinders in Santa Clara.

GRANADA

GRANADA

- Construction of the Alhambra. - The Arabs and mathematics. - Tales of the Alhambra. - Lorca: Poet in Granada. - Tiles that cover the plane. - Arches in the gardens of Generalife.

TOLEDO

TOLEDO

- Omar Khayyam, Al Kwaritzmi, John of Seville, ... - Center of translators in Toledo. - Algebra in Don Quixote. - Hindu-Arabic numbers. - Positional systems: binary, decimal ... - The importance of zero.

VALENCIA

VALENCIA

- The market of Valencia. - The UNESCO World Heritage. - Propellers and ogee arches.

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