Fractal worlds : grown, built, and imagined /: grown, built, and imagined. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Frame and Amelia Urry.
• Other Names: Frame, Michael; Urry, Amelia, 1991-; Strogatz, Steven author of foreword.
• Contents: What is the shape of the world around us? -- Self-similarity in geometry -- Self-similarity in the wild -- Manufactured fractals -- The Mandelbrot set : infinite complexity from a simple formula -- Quantifying fractals : what is fractal dimension? -- Further developments -- Valediction -- A. A look under the hood : some technical notes -- B. Solutions to the problems.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (512 pages)
• Subjects: 510; Fractals; Convex geometry; Mandelbrot sets; Symmetry (Physics); Mathematical physics; Mathematics in nature; Fractals; Fractales; fractals; MATHEMATICS -- Essays; MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS -- Reference; Fractals; Fraktal
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300220704; 0300220707
• Related ISBNs: 9780300197877; 030019787X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-489) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.