The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems

Peitgen, Heinz-Otto,Richter, Peter H.

ISBN 10: 3540158510 / ISBN 13: 9783540158516

Editore: Springer, 1986

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• Titolo: The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540158510
• ISBN 13: 9783540158516
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

Now approaching its tenth year, this hugely successful book presents an unusual attempt to publicise the field of Complex Dynamics. The text was originally conceived as a supplemented catalogue to the exhibition "Frontiers of Chaos", seen in Europe and the United States, and describes the context and meaning of these fascinating images. A total of 184 illustrations - including 88 full-colour pictures of Julia sets - are suggestive of a coffee-table book.
However, the invited contributions which round off the book lend the text the required formality. Benoit Mandelbrot gives a very personal account, in his idiosyncratic self-centred style, of his discovery of the fractals named after him and Adrien Douady explains the solved and unsolved problems relating to this amusingly complex set.

Recensione

"..a rare and extraordinary book...anyone who has ever explored the intricate folds of the Mandelbrot set will want this book and will be delighted by it...above all, a celebration of fractal forms and as such it works superbly...buy this book and enjoy it" Personal Computer World
"A literally wonder-ful book!" Physikalische Blätter