Description
The butterfly plot is intimately related to many other important phenomena in number theory and physics, including Apollonian gaskets, the Foucault pendulum, quasicrystals, the quantum Hall effect, and many more. Its story reflects the magic, the mystery, and the simplicity of the laws of nature, and Indu Satija, in a wonderfully personal style, relates this story, enriching it with a vast number of lively historical anecdotes, many photographs, beautiful visual images, and even poems, making her book a great feast, for the eyes, for the mind and for the soul.
About the Author
Born in Amritsar, India, Indu Satija grew up in Bombay. After graduating with a Masters degree in physics from Bombay University, she came to New York to get her doctorate in theoretical physics at Columbia University. Currently, she is a physics professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her recent areas of research include topological insulators, Bose-Einstein condensates, and solitons. She has published numerous scientific articles; this, however, is her first book. Physics is Indu's first love, and the outdoors is her second. She lives in Potomac, a suburb of Washington, DC, with her husband Sushil, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Both Indu and Sushil are marathon runners, and they enjoy hiking and biking as well. They have two children: Rahul, who is a biologist, and Neena, who is an investigative reporter.
Book Information
ISBN 9781681740539
Author Indubala I Satija
Format Paperback
Page Count 350
Imprint Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Publisher Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Weight(grams) 525g