Indra's Pearls

This book tells the story of the first computer exploration of Klein's vision of infinitely repeated reflections, featuring extraordinary images.

Highly illustrated realization of infinitely reflected images related to fractals, chaos and symmetry.

Autorentext
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 the Fields Medal in 1974, the Wolf Prize in 1998 and the National Medal of Science in 2010.

Klappentext
This book tells the story of the first computer exploration of Klein's vision of infinitely repeated reflections, featuring extraordinary images.

Zusammenfassung
For a century, Klein's vision of infinitely repeated reflections, practically impossible to represent by hand, barely existed outside the imagination of mathematicians, In the 1980s, the authors embarked on the first computer exploration of Klein's vision, here available for the first time in print, with the programs that generate them.

Inhalt
Preface; Introduction; 1. The language of symmetry; 2. A delightful fiction; 3. Double spirals and Möbius maps; 4. The Schottky dance; 5. Fractal dust and infinite words; 6. Indra's necklace; 7. The glowing gasket; 8. Playing with parameters; 9. Accidents will happen; 10. Between the cracks; 11. Crossing boundaries; 12. Epilogue; Index; Road map.

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