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Indra's pearls: the vision of Felix Klein
Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, rediscovered in mathematics an idea from Eastern philosophy: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeat...
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| Lenguaje: | eng |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2002
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1503369 |