Symmetry in Chaos by Mike Field

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Symmetry in Chaos by Mike Field

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Summary

This work illustrates the many varied and beautiful pictures that result when symmetry and chaos are combined. The mathematical ideas behind the picture are explained in an elementary fashion, and the computer programs used to generate the illustrations are presented in the appendices.

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Symmetry in Chaos by Mike Field

This work illustrates the many varied and beautiful pictures that may be produced when the seemingly contradictory ideas of symmetry and chaos are combined. The mathematical ideas behind these pictures are presented in an elementary fashion, and computer programs are provided in appendices. These programs allow the reader to generate on a home computer black-and-white versions of the many patterns shown throughout this book.
Field, Michael: - Michael Field was the shared pseudonym of Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862- 1913), who lived together as lovers and collaboratively wrote some eight volumes of poetry and twenty-seven plays. Their poetry enjoyed both popular and critical success until their friend, the poet Robert Browning, let slip Field's true identity: in the milieu of Victorian letters, the work of women writers (and especially collaborators, spinsters, and lesbians, as biographer Emma Donoghue puts it) was still relegated to a second class. While their early poetry displays strong aestheticist currents both formally and thematically, their later poems incorporate an eclectic mix of Symbolism and Catholic spirituality without ever straying from an idiosyncratic style that is at once extravagantly precise and profoundly sensuous.
SKU GOR003290013
ISBN 13 9780198536888
ISBN 10 0198536887
Title Symmetry in Chaos
Author Mike Field
Condition Very Good
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1996-05-01
Number of pages 232
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us