Indra's Pearls

Indra's Pearls
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 0521352533
ISBN-13 : 9780521352536
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Book Synopsis Indra's Pearls by : David Mumford

Download or read book Indra's Pearls written by David Mumford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, rediscovered in mathematics an idea from Eastern philosophy: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeated reflections and was led to forms with multiple co-existing symmetries. For a century these ideas barely existed outside the imagination of mathematicians. However in the 1980s the authors embarked on the first computer exploration of Klein's vision, and in doing so found many further extraordinary images. Join the authors on the path from basic mathematical ideas to the simple algorithms that create the delicate fractal filigrees, most of which have never appeared in print before. Beginners can follow the step-by-step instructions for writing programs that generate the images. Others can see how the images relate to ideas at the forefront of research.


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