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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