Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature - Hardcover

Field, Michael J.

 
9780198536895: Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature
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ISBN 10: 0198536895 ISBN 13: 9780198536895
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This volume illustrates the varied pictures that may be produced when the seemingly contradictory ideas of symmetry and chaos are combined. Unlike the more modernistic fractal art, the symmetric chaos pictures have a classical, familiar feel. To emphasize this point, many of the designs are accompanied by contrasting pictures from architecture, art and nature. The book is written in layman's terms, and attempts to explain, in an elementary fashion, the mathematical ideas on which the symmetric chaos pictures are based. A number examples of symmetric chaos in the real world are presented, including engineering problems, "chaotic trains" and the pattern formation in fluid turbulence.

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About the Author


About the Authors:
Michael Field is Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sydney. He has published several books and papers in advanced mathematics. In 1990, he was Visiting Scientist at the Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cornell University.
Martin Golubitsky is Cullen Professor of Mathematics at the University of Houston. He is co-author with Ian Stewart of Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198536895
ISBN 13 
9780198536895
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
230

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