Indra's pearlsDavid Mumford
Indra's pearls
by David Mumford · first published 2002
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I feel compelled to plug the book Indra’s Pearls here, by David Mumford et al.
on “My Journey into Fractals” ↗…it's very hard, it's not for everyone, the common folk cannot understand it, and 99% of those who can will not be on the level of a Felix Klein or Henri Poincaré. This is well exemplified in the book "Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein", even today it's hard to trained mathematicians to visualize what Klein described. How many mathematicians does the author of the post supposed there was at Göttingen for just…
on “Why I left math” ↗