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Fractal worlds : grown, built, and imagined /
Fractal geometry is a uniquely fascinating area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a majestic mountain range. In this essential primer, mathematician Michael Frame-a close collaborator with Benoit Mandelbrot, the founder o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is the shape of the world around us?
- Self-similarity in geometry
- Self-similarity in the wild
- Manufactured fractals
- The Mandelbrot set : infinite complexity from a simple formula
- Quantifying fractals : what is fractal dimension?
- Further developments
- Valediction
- A. A look under the hood : some technical notes
- B. Solutions to the problems.