Images of a Complex WorldThe
Art
and
Poetry and Chaos
|
 |
The above book is published by World
Scientific (Singapore, 2005) and
can be ordered
on-line from the
publisher or from Amazon.com,
Barnes
and
Nobel, Borders,
Wal-Mart,
or
Bookstores.com.
This coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: Robin Chapman's poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world, associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott's full-color computer art generated from billions of versions of only three simple equations for strange attractors, Julia sets, and iterated function systems; his definitions of 39 key terms; a mathematical appendix; and even a multiple-choice quiz to test understanding. Accompanied by a CD-ROM of the poet reading 13 poems and 1,000 images of chaos art from which slide shows can be generated and 100 high-resolution posters created. With a foreword by Clifford A. Pickover, author of A Passion for Mathematics.
|
"Robin Chapman and Clint Sprott celebrate
the eclectic nature of complexity with this beautiful and educational
journey thorough science, art and literature."
Richard Taylor
Professor of Physics, Psychology, and Art Universitiy of Oregon |
|
"Julien Clinton Sprott's exquisite
computer art with Robin Chapman's deeply intelligent and moving poems
-- by turns meditative, narrative, descriptive, witty -- reveals the
elegant simplicity at the heart of infinite detail and variety."
Ronald Wallace
Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry University of Wisconsin-Madison |
|
"This book is the future already here. On
its pages, beauty and meaning are one; and art, poetry, and science
dance together in perfect time."
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Sally Mead Hands Professor of English University of Wisconsin-Madison |
This coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: Robin Chapman's poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world, associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott's full-color computer art generated from billions of versions of only three simple equations for strange attractors, Julia sets, and iterated function systems; his definitions of 39 key terms; a mathematical appendix; and even a multiple-choice quiz to test understanding. Accompanied by a CD-ROM of the poet reading 13 poems and 1,000 images of chaos art from which slide shows can be generated and 100 high-resolution posters created. With a foreword by Clifford A. Pickover, author of A Passion for Mathematics.
- See a slide show of images from the CD-ROM.
- View some sample images from the CD-ROM.
- Read a review of the
book in Wisconsin Week
- Read a review of the book in Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.
- Read a review of the book in The Mathematical Intelligencer
- Read an interview
of author Robin Chapman
- See a list of minor misprints.