Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:David Mumford, Caroline Series, David WrightPublish date:2015-11-05Pages:414
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107564749ISBN-10:1107564743UPC:9781107564749Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:TopologySize:9.77 x 7.47 x 0.84 inchesWeight:2.5618Product ID:SCCZ7YW2CH
Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein
Felix Klein, a great geometer of the nineteenth century, rediscovered an idea from Hindu mythology in mathematics: the heaven of Indra in which the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl in a net of pearls. Practically impossible to represent by hand, this idea barely existed outside the imagination, until the 1980s when the authors embarked on the first computer investigation of Klein's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107564749ISBN-10:1107564743UPC:9781107564749Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:TopologySize:9.77 x 7.47 x 0.84 inchesWeight:2.5618Product ID:SCCZ7YW2CH
Mumford, David: - David Mumford has been University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University since 1996. Before that he was at Harvard University for thirty-five years. He has been a contributor to the Calculus Textbook Project, led by Hughes-Hallett and Gleason. Over his long and distinguished career, Professor Mumford has received many awards and honours, including...
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