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Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, discovered in mathematics an idea prefigured in Buddhist mythology: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeated reflections and was led to forms with multiple coexisting symmetries. ...(展开全部)

An unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation when his paintings imitate life too well by quacking, crawling, and erupting all over Paris.

Today’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Visio...(展开全部)

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, an...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

Richard Bird takes a radically new approach to algorithm design, namely, design by calculation. These 30 short chapters each deal with a particular programming problem drawn from sources as diverse as games and puzzles, intriguing combinatorial tasks, and more familiar areas such as data compression and string matching. Each pearl starts with the statement of the problem expres...(展开全部)