Authors:Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jrgens, Dietmar Saupe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: fractals, chaos, introduction, part, classroom
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 1991-10-22
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 038797041X
ISBN-13: 9780387970417
Published in cooperation with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this text is based on lectures given to various communities of teachers and students. Written especially for teachers and intended for classroom use at high school and college levels, the book also can be used for independent study.
Authors:Maxim I. Stamenov, Earl R. Mac Cormac, Earl MacCor
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: fractals, advances, consciousness, research, bond, symmetry, brain, mind, search
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027251274
ISBN-13: 9789027251275
This volume discusses the possibilities of modelling different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the possibility of brain and mind to implement nonlinear dynamic patterns in their functioning. The contributors discuss the following topics, amongst others: the fractal timing of the neural functioning on different scales of brain networking; the edge-of-chaos dynamics in recursively organized neural systems and in intersensory interaction; aspects of
Author: Michael F. Barnsley
Publisher: Morgan Kaufma
Keywords: everywhere, fractals
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 2000-04-18
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0120790696
ISBN-13: 9780120790692
This volume is the second edition of the highly successful Fractals Everywhere. The Focus of this text is how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world. This edition of Fractals Everywhere is the most up-to-date fractal textbook available today.Fractals Everywhere may be supplemented by Michael F. Barnsley’s Desktop Fractal Design System (version 2.0) with IBM for Macintosh software. The Desktop Fractal Design System 2.0 is a tool for designing Iterated Function Systems codes and fractal images, and makes an excellent supplement to a course on fractal geome
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Publisher: Springer
Keywords: theory, applications, trends, new, engineering, fractals
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2005-05-17
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 1846280478
ISBN-13: 9781846280474
The use of fractals in engineering is evolving swiftly and the editors have turned to Springer for the third time to bring you the latest research emerging from the growth in techniques available for the application of the ideas of fractals and complexity to a variety of engineering fields. The potential of this research can be seen in real industrial situations with recent progress being made in areas such as chemical engineering, internet traffic, physics and finance. Signal and image processing continues to be a major field of application for fractal analysis and is well-represented here. I
Author: Theoni Pappa
Publisher: Wide World Publishing, Tetra
Keywords: tales, mathematical, googols, fractals
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1993-02-16
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0933174896
ISBN-13: 9780933174894
A new treasure trove of stories that make mathematical ideas come to life with an unusual cast of characters. This book explores mathematical concepts and topics such as real numbers, exponents, dimensions, and geometry in both serious and humorous ways. 50 line drawings.
Author: Donald L. Turcotte
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: geophysics, geology, chaos, fractals
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1997-07-13
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521567335
ISBN-13: 9780521567336
Now in a greatly expanded second edition, this book relates fractals and chaos to a variety of geological and geophysical applications and introduces the fundamental concepts of fractal geometry and chaotic dynamics. In this new edition, Turcotte expands coverage of self-organized criticality and includes statistics and time series to provide a broad background for the reader. Topics include drainage networks and erosion, floods, earthquakes, mineral and petroleum resources, fragmentation, mantle convection, and magnetic field generation. The author introduces all concepts at the lowest possib
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Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: phenomena, nature, related, fractals, patterns, thinking
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-05
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 9812388222
ISBN-13: 9789812388223
Fractal geometry, together with the broader fields of nonlinear dynamics and complexity, represented a large segment of modern science at the end of the 20th century. Penetration of the resulting new paradigms into practically all academic disciplines has confirmed the fundamental assertion of universal formalism common to a wide range of human endeavors. This book contains an extended article by B B Mandelbrot, reviewing his contribution to fractal geometry and outlining some unsolved problems, with illustrations especially of finance and physics. It covers a range of multidisciplinary to
