Fractals, chaos, power laws : minutes from an infinite paradise / Manfred Schroeder.
By: Schroeder, M. R. (Manfred Robert).
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : W.H. Freeman, 1991Description: xviii, 429 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0716721368 .Subject(s): Symmetry (Physics)DDC classification: 530.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-410) and indexes.
Introduction -- Similarity and dissimilarity -- Self similarity - discrete, continuous, strict and otherwise -- Power laws: endless sources of self-similarity -- Noises: white, pink, brown and black -- Brownian motion, gambling losses and intergalactic voids: random fractals par excellence -- Cantor sets: self-similarity and arithmetic dust -- Fractals in higher dimensions and a digital sundial -- Multifractals: intimately intertwined fractals -- Some practical fractals and their measurement -- Iteration, strange mappings and a billion digits for PI -- A self-similar sequence, the logistic parabola and symbolic dynamics -- A forbidden symmetry, Fibonacci's rabbits and a new state of matter -- Periodic and quasiperiodic structures in space -- the route to spatial chaos -- Percolation: from forest fires to epidemics -- Phase transitions and renormalization -- Cellular automata.