Schroeder, M. R.  1926- <br/><br/>
Fractals, chaos, power laws :  minutes from an infinite paradise / 
Manfred Schroeder. 
 - New York :  W.H. Freeman,  1991. 
 - xviii, 429 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.) ;  25 cm.  
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-410) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0716721368  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90036763 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Symmetry (Physics)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.1