Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein

by David Mumford, David Wright, Caroline Series

Book Overview

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 vision. In this extraordinary book they explore the path...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107564743
• ISBN13: 9781107564749
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.8"