Seeing the World
Published on 15. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
74 pages
978-0-9558515-0-6 (ISBN)
Description
Is it obvious that a network of neurons can explain how we see? There is an apocryphal story about the mathematician Hardy, who wrote an equation on the blackboard and said "The proof of this is obvious". After a little while he murmured "At least I think it is", and left to check the proof in the library, only returning just before the end of the lecture to announce "Yes, it is obvious". Sometimes, mathematical techniques are necessary to be sure that a network with a given set of properties will generate a particular visual phenomenon. The geometrical concepts of vectors and manifolds are introduced in the context of the visual system and used to provide a framework for explaining the behaviour of the visual system.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pembury
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
302 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9558515-0-6 (9780955851506)
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