Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein by David Mumford, David Wright, Caroline Series

Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein

David Mumford, David Wright, Caroline Series

396 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics reference science informative slow-paced
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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 b...

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