Images of a Complex World: The Art And Poetry of Chaos

Chapman, Robin S; Sprott, Julien Clinton

ISBN 10 : 9812564012 ISBN 13 : 9789812564016

Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

With the poems written by winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2005, this coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: Robin Chapman's poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world, associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott's full-color computer art generated from billions of versions of only three simple equations for strange attractors, Julia sets, and iterated function systems; his definitions of 39 key terms; a mathematical appendix; and even a multiple-choice quiz to test understanding. Accompanied by a CD-ROM of the poet reading 13 poems and 1,000 images of chaos art from which slide shows can be generated and 100 high-resolution posters created, the book has a foreword by Cliff Pickover, author of A Passion for Mathematics.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Complexity has spread like wildfire through many disciplines, revolutionizing the way we view the world around us. Robin Chapman and Clint Sprott celebrate the eclectic nature of Complexity with this beautiful and educational journey through science, art and literature."Richard TaylorProfessor of Physics, Psychology, and ArtUniversity of Oregon"This book is the future already here. On its pages, beauty and meaning are one, and art, poetry and science dance together in perfect time." --esse Lee Kercheval, author of World as Dictionary and Dog Angeland Professor of English (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This collection of Chapman's poems with Sprott's visual art and mathematical expositions is a welcome compilation and nicely shows the breadth of their work, both separately and in collaboration ... Buy it or have your library purchase it, share it with your students, and dip into it when your creative pump needs priming. --The Mathematical Intelligencer

Images of a Complex World is an intriguing interdisciplinary effort ... In summary: a provocative book; some striking images and poetry, new ideas. --Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

Présentation de l'éditeur

This coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: Robin Chapman's poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world, associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott's full-color computer art generated from billions of versions of only three simple equations for strange attractors, Julia sets, and iterated function systems; his definitions of 39 key terms; a mathematical appendix; and even a multiple-choice quiz to test understanding. Accompanied by a CD-ROM of the poet reading 13 poems and 1,000 images of chaos art from which slide shows can be generated and 100 high-resolution posters created. It also includes a foreword by Cliff Pickover, author of "A Passion for Mathematics".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9812564012
• ISBN 13: 9789812564016
• Reliure: Coffret produits
• Nombre de pages: 175
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible