cliff@WATSON.IBM.COM ("Cliff Pickover") (06/27/91)
The following book might be interesting to some of you. The title is "Computers and The Imagination". Topics: Chaos, molecular genetics, fractals, visualization, speculation, recreational mathematics, computer art, biology simulations, and a lot more. 400 illustrations. 430 pages. Color. Hardcover. The author is C. Pickover. It has a reduced price of $26.95 for orders received in the month of July and $29.95 thereafter. The ordering address is: Garrett Kiely, St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010 USA. Here is a sampling of chapter titles: Butterfly Curves, Continued-Root Fractals, The Cancer Conundrum, Building Your Own Artificial Spider Webs, Pain-inducing Patterns, Desktop Evolution, Twisted Mirror Worlds, Fossil Seahsell Growth, Turning a Universe Inside Out, Monkey Curves, Visualizing Cantor Cheese Construction, Chimpanzee/Man Hybrid, A Pattern Based on the Mandelbrot Set, Computer-Generated Poetry, The Amazon Skull Game, The Schoenberg Space-Filling Curve, Pentagonal Kaleidoscopes, Squashed Worlds, Computer Exoskeletons, Fractal Faces, Million-Point Sculptures, etc.