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Chaos and Fractals (International Congress) (Hardcover)

by C.A. Pickover (Editor)
Key Phrases: warped midgets, north atom, initializing equations, New York, Graphics Vol, Elsevier Science (more...)
4.7 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)


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Editorial Reviews
Review
John de Rivaz
...appears to be aimed to those who have not read any of Dr Pickover's books before and who want to use the power of a modern desktop computer to emulate and possibly advance on ideas in chaos theory that appeared in the late 1980s and the 1990s. If that is your purpose, then buying this one book may well be a very good move...

Fractal Report
K.J. Falconer
...this collection of articles will appeal especially to programmers, professional and amateur alike. It will also catch the eye of scientists and mathematicians along with interested lay people. This book has substantial academic content, but it can also be appreciated at the level of a coffee table book, to be dipped into for its wealth of ideas and stunning illustrations.

Fractals
R. Girvan
...fascinating new book ...fractal artists and scientists will find inspiration in this excellent showcase of the relevance of chaos to the broader field of science.
Scientific Computing World
...Although this is not a deep book, scientifically speaking, even professional mathematicians and physicist can find some inspiration in it.
Mathematical Reviews
...This book is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, a comprehensive index, and the many computer program examples encourage reader involvement.
Zentralblatt fur Mathematik

Mathematical Reviews
1999 ...Although this is not a deep book, scientifically speaking, even professional mathematicians and physicist can find some inspiration in it.

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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 468 pages
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science (June 15, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0444500022
  • ISBN-13: 978-0444500021
  • Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,548,087 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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  • "Clifford Pickover has brilliantly succeeded in a monumental task. He has explained, in his usual lucid style, some forty of the greatest laws of physics, and sketched the lives and often eccentric personalities of the geniuses who discovered them. Pickover's pages reflect his vast knowledge of physics and his firm conviction that mathematics has an awesome external reality."
         --Martin Gardner, author of The Colossal Book of Mathematics 
     
  • "The incomparable Clifford Pickover has written another rich science narrative that at once informs and entertains. There is no one writing today with such an encyclopedic knowledge of all things scientific, and Archimedes to Hawking covers the gamut of what is arguably the most important topic in all of science—the laws of nature. Are they discovered or invented? Do they correspond to things out in the world or only to thoughts inside our heads? These and numerous other tantalizing questions are answered as Pickover takes us through a brief history of nearly everything in the universe (and the universe itself)."
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