The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the RenaissanceAs any student of art will tell you, one of the chief accomplishments of the Renaissance was the development of perspective in painting the introduction of spatial perception that led to the legendary beauty and majesty of works by Giotto, Botticelli, and da Vinci. In The Invention of Infinity, Dr. J. V. Field, a noted historian on math and the arts, tells the remarkable story of how the "practical" mathematics of Renaissance artists actually