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Paperback Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein Book

ISBN: 1107564743

ISBN13: 9781107564749

Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein

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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...

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