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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 These unpublished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)
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