cover of Mathematica book (hyperbolic polyhedra)
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- Subject: [mg5776] cover of Mathematica book (hyperbolic polyhedra)
- From: arnold at fermi.phys.washington.edu (Peter Arnold)
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:58:31 -0500
- Organization: University of Washington
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Can someone tell me what the hyperbolic polyhedra on the cover of
the Mathematica book (2nd edition) and on pp. 34-5 are? In particular,
are the spikes really finite, or is this just a graphical interpretation
of something infinite? What's the equation? Anyone have a referenence?
I ask because some plots I've generated of ceratin properties of
ultrarelativistic plasmas look exactly the same, and I'm wondering if
they are. (In my case, I don't know what the explicit formula is --
it's the result of numerical integration of something complicated.)
Peter Arnold
arnold at phys.washington.edu