Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty

Graphics from an Unseen World

Clifford A. Pickover

394 pages, parution le 08/01/2002

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Résumé

In this mind-expanding book-hailed by Omni magazine as "Van Leeuwenhoek's twentieth-century equivalent"-fractals and chaos theory, with a little help from the author, lead to startling computer-generated graphics. Along the way Dr Pickover, renowned scientist, inventor, and computer graphics artist, touches on topics as seemingly diverse as cancer genes, acoustics, the Beatles, molecular biophysics, Fourier analysis, seashells, air traffic control, etc., as he weaves together a fascinating and beautiful synthesis of science and art.

The first of the book's three parts gives useful background information on computers, graphics, and creativity, Including a comparison of the human brain and the computer brain. Part 2 shows how graphical methods can be used to represent and detect patterns in complicated data; Individual chapters discuss Fourier transforms, unusual graphic representations, image processing of the Shroud of Turin, and charged curves in physics. Part 3 illustrates simple techniques for visualizing chaotic behavior ; It includes chapters on genesis equations, beauty from complex variables, mathematical chaos, number theory, numerical approximation methods, tessellation automata derived from a single defect, and more.

Aimed at artists, programmers, students, scientists, and inquisitive members of the general public, the book is reader-riendly throughout, and contains computational hints and "recipes" enabling readers to produce many of the figures on their home computers. Useful appendices contain additional recipes, mathematical recreaUerii4 and suggestions for future.

Contents

Part I : Introduction
Part II : Representing nature
Part III : Pattern, Symmetry, Beauty

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L'auteur - Clifford A. Pickover

Diplomé de l'université de Yale, Clifford Pickover est un passionné de maths et un auteur prolifique. Il a publié plus de 40 ouvrages traduits dans plus de douze langues, sur des sujets très variés : mathématiques, informatique, cosmologie, magie, science fiction...

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Dover
Auteur(s)	Clifford A. Pickover
Parution	08/01/2002
Nb. de pages	394
Format	15 x 23,2
Couverture	Broché
Poids	745g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780486417097
ISBN13	978-0-486-41709-7