Fractals and Chaos: An Illustrated Course provides you with a practical, elementary introduction to fractal geometry and chaotic dynamics-subjects that have attracted immense interest throughout the scientific and engineering disciplines. The book may be used in part or as a whole to form an introductory course in either or both subject areas. A prominent feature of the book is the use of many illustrations to convey the concepts required for comprehension of the subject. In addition, plenty of problems are provided to test understanding. Advanced mathematics is avoided in order to provide a concise treatment and speed the reader through the subject areas. The book can be used as a text for undergraduate courses or for self-study.
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I don't think there can be a price on this book. It offers discrete information that has the wieght of being both technical and general. It really puts the reader in the position to comfortably understand the topics. I can't see how anyone would ever want to sell this book, unless they memorized every page. It can be refrenced over and over again to get limtless information. Each chapter closes with suggestions for further reading,extending into every field: geology, physics, chemistry,etc. I found the book at the library, and just couldn't put it down. It smoothly transitions between a first section on fractals, then a middle area where both chaos and fractals intersect, and lastly a final chunk on chaos. The beauty is that you can start where ever you want in the book because each chapter builds independently, while tieing things together at the same time. A brilliant book published by the Institute of Physics.
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The twin subjects of fractal geometry and chaotic dynamics have been behind an enormous change in the way scientists and engineers perceive, and subsequently model, the world in which we live. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimum mutual information criterion, structured walk technique, measured hypervolume, probing hypersphere, divider dimension, box counting dimension, iterated solutions, graphical iteration, reconstructed attractor, fractal dimension estimate, similarity dimension, briefly jot, remaining line segments, attractor reconstruction, logistic map, pointwise dimension, chaotic case, unit line segment, regular fractals, special focus issue, natural fractals, time series output, dimension estimates, correlation sum, correlation dimension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Computer Graphics by Acm Press in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Directions in Chaos (World Scientific Series on Directions in Condensed Matter Physics) by Hao Bai-Lin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by J. M. T. Thompson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit B. Mandelbrot on page 44, and Back Matter
- Introduction to Chaos and Coherence by J Froyland in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Dynamical Systems with Applications using Maple by Stephen Lynch on page 312, and Back Matter
- Applications of Statistical Physics by A. Gadomski on page 240, and page 353
- Dynamical Systems with Applications using MATLAB by Stephen Lynch on page 140, and Back Matter
- The Economics of Complex Spatial Systems by A. Reggiani in Back Matter
- Statistical Methods in Control & Signal Processing (Electrical and Computer Engineering) by Tohru Katayama on page 524
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