“Perspective(s)” may be set during the Italian Renaissance, but its vision of the period is absurd, antic, slightly askew, steeped in art history and underpinned by an aficionado’s deligh ...

Though “Perspective(s)” offers moments of escapism, its opening parallel between exalted past and prosaic present is Binet’s first hint that his observations reach beyond the Renaissance. Indeed, the ...

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo ...