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RECORD NUMBER: 12 OF 12Main Title | The fractal geometry of nature / | |||||||||||
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Author | Mandelbrot, Benoit B., | |||||||||||
Publisher | W.H. Freeman, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1982 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 07876824 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0716711869; 9780716711865 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Geometry ; Mathematical models ; Stochastic processes ; Fractals ; Fraktal ; Meetkunde ; Natuur | |||||||||||
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Collation | 460 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Revised version of author's 1977 work, "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension." Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-443) and index. |
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Contents Notes | I. Introduction -- II. Three classic fractals, tamed -- III. Galaxies and eddies -- IV. Scaling fractals -- V. Nonscaling fractals -- VI. Self-mapping fractals -- VII. Randomness -- VIII. Stratified random fractals -- IX. Fractional Brown fractals -- X. Random tremas: texture -- XI. Miscellany -- XII. Of men and ideas. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightening does not travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature's shapes differs in kind, not merely degree, from that of the shapes of ordinary geometry, the geometry of fractal shapes. |