Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

History

Heinz-Otto Peitgen is a German mathematician who taught at the University of Bremen, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. His books on chaos and fractals were worldwide bestsellers for several decades. From 1981 to 1988, Peitgen's lab was one of the only computer graphics labs in the hands of mathematicians and physicists. His and Peter Richter's groups produced several movies with the Goettingen Institut fuer den Wissenschaftlichen Film (IWF), and two for Spectrum-Verlag, Heidelberg, which was responsible for the the German edition of Scientific American. One of these was titled "Fractals: An Animated Discussion."

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Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Movies

Fractals: An Animated Discussion
Fractals: An Animated Discussion
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Fractal geometry is perhaps the most exciting discovery of contemporary mathematics. FRACTALS: AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION is a rare combination of full-color animated sequences and intriguing interviews. The film turns the Mandelbrot set and the Lorenz attractor into visible and easily comprehensible objects as their discoverers, Benoit Mandelbrot and Edward Lorenz, discuss the background history history and details of their work. The film features spectacular new computer-graphic illustrations of chaos and self-similarity as well as music composed according to fractal principles.