Indra's pearls : the vision of Felix Klein /
"Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, discovered in mathematics an idea prefigured in Buddhist mythology: 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 infi...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- The language of symmetry
- A delightful fiction
- Double spirals and Möbius maps
- The Schottky dance
- Fractal dust and infinite words
- Indra's necklace
- The glowing gasket
- Playing with parameters
- Accidents will happen
- Between the cracks
- Crossing boundaries
- Epilogue
- Index
- Road map.
