Introducing Fractals

Introducing Fractals
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Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-10 : 9781848317833
ISBN-13 : 1848317832
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Book Synopsis Introducing Fractals by : Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

Download or read book Introducing Fractals written by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fractals are the geometry of the natural world. They're about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world- the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealised forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals everywhere; indeed, we are fractals ourselves. Fractal geometry is an extension of classical geometry which can make precise models of physical structures, from ferns to galaxies. It can describe the shape of a 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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