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SUMMARY:Indra's Pearls: Geometry and Symmetry - Professor Caroline Series\
 , Professor of Pure Mathematics (Warwick)
DTSTART:20101125T180000Z
DTEND:20101125T190000Z
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CONTACT:Dr O. Rath Spivack
DESCRIPTION:All welcome. If you're curious about fractals\, come to this t
 alk\, based on the book of the same title by David Mumford\, Caroline Seri
 es and David Wright\, published by Cambridge University Press.\n\nIn Buddh
 ist mythology\, the heaven of Indra was said to contain a net of pearls\, 
 each of which was reflected in its neighbours\, so that the whole Universe
  was mirrored in each pearl.\n\nFelix Klein\, one of the great nineteenth-
 century  geometers\, studied the geometry of infinitely repeating reflecti
 ons\, each simple in itself\, but whose interactions produce delicate frac
 tal filigrees\, curiously reminiscent of the Buddhist myth.\n\nIn the 1980
 's\, the authors of Indra's Pearls   embarked on a computer exploration of
  Klein's  ideas\, and in doing so\, found further extraordinary images of 
 their own. Starting from basic mathematical ideas\, the author Caroline Se
 ries will explain the simple algorithms whose repetition creates delicate 
 fractal filigrees. \nThe pictures encode a wealth of mathematical meaning\
 , but you don't have to be  a mathematician to enjoy this talk.
LOCATION:Wood-Legh Room\, Strathaird Building\, Lucy Cavendish College
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