TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peitgen,Heinz-Otto
AU  - Jürgens,H.
AU  - Saupe,Dietmar
TI  - Chaos and fractals: new frontiers of science 
SN  - 0387979034 (hbk.)
U1  - 514.74 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer-Verlag
KW  - Chaotic behavior in systems
KW  - Fractals
N1  - 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
ER  -