Mathematical Digest
Short Summaries of Articles about Mathematics
in the Popular Press "Leaving Paisley Park": Review of Indra's Pearls by David Mumford,Caroline Series, and David Wright. Reviewed by Mike Holderness. New Scientist, 18 May 2002,pages 54-55. "This is a strange beast of a book," this brief review says: a popularizationwritten by mathematicians and aimed at mathematicians---or at least those whocan take a good dose of the technical side of the subject. The authors "opentheir consideration of a quite different family of fractals with thefundamental theory of symmetry groups." --- Allyn Jackson |
