Fractal worlds : grown, built, and imagined /: grown, built, and imagined. (2016)
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- Book
- Title:
- Fractal worlds : grown, built, and imagined /: grown, built, and imagined. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Fractal worlds : grown, built, and imagined
- 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.
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