The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems

Peitgen, Heinz-Otto

ISBN 10: 3540158510 / ISBN 13: 9783540158516

Editore: Springer, 1986

Codice articolo 3540158510-VB

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

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Titolo: The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex ...
Casa editrice: Springer
Data di pubblicazione: 1986
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: As New