The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

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Nina Samuel Jan von Brevern

The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot

Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Nina Samuel, Jan von Brevern, Matthias Bruhn , Juliet Koss

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Yale University
01 November 2012

Electronic, holographic & video art; Mathematics & Sciences; Chaos theory; Web graphics & design

"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. Benoît 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 These unpublished materials offer new connections between the material world and that of mathematical ideas.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 Rössler provides historical depth to the analysis."

Contributions by: Jan von Brevern, Matthias Bruhn, Juliet Koss, Margarete Pratschke
Edited by: Nina Samuel
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780300186437
ISBN 10: 0300186436
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 November 2012
Audience: General/trade , Adult education , ELT Advanced , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nina Samuel is a visiting assistant professor at the Bard Graduate Center and an associate member of the Das Technische Bild in Germany.