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Fractals: A Graphic Guide


Fractal Geometry is the geometry of the natural world – animal, vegetable and mineral. It’s about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world – the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealized forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals everywhere; indeed we are fractal!

Fractal Geometry is an extension of classical geometry. Using computers, it can make precise models of physical structures - from ferns to galaxies. Fractal geometry is a new language. Once you speak it, you can describe the shape of cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house. Introducing Fractals traces the historical development of this mathematical discipline, explores its descriptive powers in the natural world, and then looks at the applications and the implications of the discoveries it has made.

As John Archibald Wheeler, protégé of Niels Bohr, friend of Albert Einstein and mentor of Richard Feynman has said, ‘No one will be considered scientifically literate tomorrow, who is not familiar with fractals’.





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Authors: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Will Rood & Ralph Edney
Prices: £6.99/$9.95/C$10.99
Pages: 176 pages
Publication Date: Sep 3, 2009
ISBN: 9781848310872


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Anthony

21.11.10 at 06:12PM 

 

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An excellent book. When I was at university doing a math degree many moons ago, these ideas were just starting to become mainstream. I never had a chance to study fractals, and it was great to read how the world has moved on in this area.

Svend

02.01.12 at 10:21AM 

 

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this book seriusly changed my life. Me and alot of my closest friends, who the book have been passed to, are know thinking and talking about fractals on a daily level. Currently I am working on a series of artworks based on fractals and chaos, focussed on iterative processes.