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Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein

by David Mumford, David Wright, Caroline Series
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Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein
Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein

For curious minds craving visual mathematical wonder

This feels like discovering a secret garden where geometry, mythology, and computing all meet. It takes big mathematical ideas and makes them surprisingly tangible, guiding you toward creating intricate fractal images yourself. If you like books that are both intellectually rich and visually mesmerizing, this one has the thrill of seeing abstract thought turn into something beautiful.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein

by David Mumford, David Wright, Caroline Series
RM40.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9780521352536
Authors: David Mumford, David Wright, Caroline Series
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 2002-05-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science, History
Related Topics: European History, Mathematics, Historical, Education, Computers
Goodreads rating: 4.41
(rated by 41 readers)

Description

Felix Klein, a great geometer of the nineteenth century, rediscovered an idea from Hindu mythology—a heaven of Indra in which the whole universe is mirrored in each pearl within a net of pearls. Practically impossible to represent by hand, this idea persisted mostly in imagination until the 1980s, when the authors began a computer exploration of Klein's vision. In this book they trace the path from some basic mathematical ideas to the simple algorithms that create delicate fractal filigrees, many of which appear in print for the first time. Step-by-step instructions for writing computer programs allow beginners to generate the images.
 

For curious minds craving visual mathematical wonder

This feels like discovering a secret garden where geometry, mythology, and computing all meet. It takes big mathematical ideas and makes them surprisingly tangible, guiding you toward creating intricate fractal images yourself. If you like books that are both intellectually rich and visually mesmerizing, this one has the thrill of seeing abstract thought turn into something beautiful.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.