Fractals everywhere /

This volume is the second edition of the highly successful Fractals Everywhere. The Focus of this text is how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world.

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Main Authors: Barnsley, M. F. Michael Fielding, 1946
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Rising, Hawley
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego, Calif. :
Publication Dates: 1993.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780120790616
Summary: This volume is the second edition of the highly successful Fractals Everywhere. The Focus of this text is how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiv, 531 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) : digital, HTML and PDF files
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-415) and index.
ISBN: 9780080506944
0080506941
9780120790616
0120790610
9781483257693
148325769X
Index Number: QA614
CLC: O189.3
Contents: Metric spaces, equivalent spaces, classification of subsets, and the space of fractals -- Transformations on metric spaces, contraction mappings, and the construction of fractals -- Chaotic dynamics on fractals -- Fractal dimension -- Fractal interpolation -- Julia sets -- Parameter spaces and Mandelbrot sets -- Measures on fractals -- Recurrent iterated function systems.