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Chaos and fractals : new frontiers of science / Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jurgens, Dietmar Saupe.

By: Peitgen, Heinz-Otto, 1945-.
Contributor(s): Jürgens, H. (Hartmut) | Saupe, Dietmar, 1954-.
Publisher: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1992Description: xvi, 984 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0387979034 (hbk.).Subject(s): Chaotic behavior in systems | FractalsDDC classification: 514.74
Contents:
Preface. - Authors. - Foreword / Mitchell J. Feigenbaum. - Introduction : Causality Principle, Deterministic Laws and Chaos. - 1. The Backbone of Fractals : Feedback and the Iterator. - 2. Classical Fractals and Self-Similarity. - 3. Limits and Self-Similarity. - 4. Length, Area and Dimension : Measuring Complexity and Scaling Properties. - 5. Encoding Images by Simple Transformations. - 6. The Chaos Game : How Randomness Creates Deterministic Shapes. - 7. Recursive Structures : Growing of Fractals and Plants. - 8. Pascal's Triangle : Cellular Automata and Attractors. - 9. Irregular Shapes : Randomness in Fractal Constructions. - 10. Deterministic Chaos: Sensitivity, Mixing, and Periodic Points. - 11. Order and Chaos : Period-Doubling and its Chaotic Mirror. - 12. Strange Attractors : The Locus of Chaos. - 13. Julia Sets : Fractal Basin Boundaries. - 14. The Mandelbrot Set: Ordering the Julia Sets. - Appendix A. Discussion of Fractal Image Compression / Yuval Fisher. - Appendix B. Multifractal Measures / Carl J. G. Evertsz, Benoit B. Mandelbrot. - Bibliography. - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface. - Authors. - Foreword / Mitchell J. Feigenbaum. - Introduction : Causality Principle, Deterministic Laws and Chaos. - 1. The Backbone of Fractals : Feedback and the Iterator. - 2. Classical Fractals and Self-Similarity. - 3. Limits and Self-Similarity. - 4. Length, Area and Dimension : Measuring Complexity and Scaling Properties. - 5. Encoding Images by Simple Transformations. - 6. The Chaos Game : How Randomness Creates Deterministic Shapes. - 7. Recursive Structures : Growing of Fractals and Plants. - 8. Pascal's Triangle : Cellular Automata and Attractors. - 9. Irregular Shapes : Randomness in Fractal Constructions. - 10. Deterministic Chaos: Sensitivity, Mixing, and Periodic Points. - 11. Order and Chaos : Period-Doubling and its Chaotic Mirror. - 12. Strange Attractors : The Locus of Chaos. - 13. Julia Sets : Fractal Basin Boundaries. - 14. The Mandelbrot Set: Ordering the Julia Sets. - Appendix A. Discussion of Fractal Image Compression / Yuval Fisher. - Appendix B. Multifractal Measures / Carl J. G. Evertsz, Benoit B. Mandelbrot. - Bibliography. - Index.

Specialist Mathematics : 2MSC20