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Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein
Indra's Pearls The Vision of Felix Klein
Author: David Mumford, Caroline Series, David Wright
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521352536
ISBN-10: 0521352533
Publication Date: 5/2002
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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