00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862054594 Buklod 20170222163952.0 g||| | || || ta 170222s1991 nyuaf rb |||1 u|eng d 0716721368 (iLib)UPBAG-00023398338 DLC BAG rda eng QC 174.17 S9 S38 1991 Schroeder, Manfred (Manfred Robert) 1926- author. Fractals, chaos, power laws minutes from an infinite paradise Manfred Schroeder. New York W.H.Freeman and Company ©1991. xviii, 429 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-410) and indexes. Similarity and dissimilarity -- Self-similarity--discrete, continuous, strict, and otherwise -- Power laws: endless sources of self-similarity -- Noises: white, pink, brown, and black -- Brownian motion, gambling losses, and intergalactic voids: random fractals par excellence -- Cantor sets: self-similarity and arithmetic dust -- Fractals in higher dimensions and a digital sundial -- Multifractals: intimately intertwined fractals -- Some practical fractals and their measurement -- Iteration, strange mappings, and a billion digits for pi -- A self-similar sequence, the logistic parabola, and symbolic dynamics -- A forbidden symmetry, Fibonacci's rabbits, and a new state of matter -- Periodic and quasiperiodic structures in space--the route to spatial chaos -- Percolation: from forest fires to epidemics -- Phase transitions and renormalization -- Cellular automata. Symmetry (Physics) FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QC 174.17 S9 S38 1991 Book