Indra's pearls : the vision of Felix Klein / David Mumford, Caroline Series and David Wright ; with cartoons by Larry Gonick.

"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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Main Author: Mumford, David, 1937-
Other Authors: Series, Caroline, Wright, David James, Gonick, Larry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Call Number: QA447 .M86 2002eb
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