The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot - Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking (Paperback)

Over the past few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level they are meant to convey, scientific images are always intersections of form and meaning. Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010), one of the best-known producers of digital images in scientific and industrial research, was particularly curious about the ways in which the materiality of scientific representation was able to influence the development of the ideas and abstractions the images embodied. Using images and objects found in Mandelbrot's office, this book questions the relationship between the visual and scientific reasoning in fractal geometry and chaos theory, among the most popular fields to use digital scientific imagery in the past century. These unpublished materials offer new connections between the material world and that of mathematical ideas. Work by Adrien Douady and Otto Roessler provides historical depth to the analysis. Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center, NY Exhibition Schedule: Bard Graduate Center(09/20/12-01/27/13)

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	October 2012
Editors:	Nina Samuel
Contributors:	Jan von Brevern • Matthias Bruhn • Juliet Koss • Margarete Pratschke
Dimensions:	222 x 159 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-18643-7
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Internet > Web design Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Chaos theory Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art
LSN:	0-300-18643-6
Barcode:	9780300186437

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