The fractal geometry of nature / Benoit B. Mandelbrot..
By: Mandelbrot, Benoit B
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BookPublisher: San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, c1982Description: 460 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0716711869.Subject(s): Geometry | Mathematical models | Stochastic processes | FractalsDDC classification: 516.15 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 516.15 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00024721 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightening does not travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature's shapes differs in kind, not merely degree, from that of the shapes of ordinary geometry, the geometry of fractal shapes.
Now that the field has expanded greatly with many active researchers, Mandelbrot presents the definitive overview of the origins of his ideas and their new applications. The Fractal Geometry of Nature is based on his highly acclaimed earlier work, but has much broader and deeper coverage and more extensive illustrations.
Rev. ed. of: Fractals. c1977.
Bibliography: p. [425]-443. - Includes index.
Introduction -- Three classsic fractals tamed -- Galaxies and eddies -- Scaling fractals -- Nonscaling fractals -- Self mapping fractals -- Randomness -- Stratified random fractals -- Fractional brown fractals -- Random tremas texture -- Miscellany -- Of men and ideas.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Benoit Mandelbrot is the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.