The beauty of fractals : images of complex dynamical systems
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The beauty of fractals : images of complex dynamical systems
Springer-Verlag, c1986
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- : softcover
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1986"--T.p. verso of softcover
Description and Table of Contents
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: us ISBN 9780387158518
Description
The authors present an unusual attempt to publicize the field of Complex Dynamics, an exciting mathematical discipline of respectable tradition that recently sprang into new life under the impact of modern computer graphics. Where previous generations of scientists had to develop their own inner eye to perceive the abstract aesthetics of their work, the astonding pictures assembled here invite the reader to share in a new mathematical experience, to revel in the charm of fractal frontiers. 184 illustrations in 211 parts, 88 in color.
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: gw ISBN 9783540158516
Description
Now approaching its tenth year, this hugely successful book presents an unusual attempt to publicise the field of Complex Dynamics. The text was originally conceived as a supplemented catalogue to the exhibition "Frontiers of Chaos", seen in Europe and the United States, and describes the context and meaning of these fascinating images. A total of 184 illustrations - including 88 full-colour pictures of Julia sets - are suggestive of a coffee-table book.
However, the invited contributions which round off the book lend the text the required formality. Benoit Mandelbrot gives a very personal account, in his idiosyncratic self-centred style, of his discovery of the fractals named after him and Adrien Douady explains the solved and unsolved problems relating to this amusingly complex set.
Table of Contents
Frontiers of Chaos.- Special Sections.- 1 Verhulst Dynamics.- 2 Julia Sets and Their Computergraphical Generation.- 3 Sullivan's Classification of Critical Points.- 4 The Mandelbrot Set.- 5 External Angles and Hubbard Trees.- 6 Newton's Method for Complex Polynomials: Cayley's Problem.- 7 Newton's Method for Real Equations.- 8 A Discrete Volterra-Lotka System.- Magnetism and Complex Boundaries.- Special Sections.- 9 Yang-Lee Zeros.- 10 Renormalization.- References.- Invited Contributions.- Fractals and the Rebirth of Iteration Theory.- Julia Sets and the Mandelbrot Set.- Freedom, Science, and Aesthetics.- Refractions of Science into Art.- Do it Yourself.- Documentation.
- Volume
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: softcover ISBN 9783642617195
Description
Now approaching its tenth year, this hugely successful book presents an unusual attempt to publicise the field of Complex Dynamics. The text was originally conceived as a supplemented catalogue to the exhibition "Frontiers of Chaos", seen in Europe and the United States, and describes the context and meaning of these fascinating images. A total of 184 illustrations - including 88 full-colour pictures of Julia sets - are suggestive of a coffee-table book.
However, the invited contributions which round off the book lend the text the required formality. Benoit Mandelbrot gives a very personal account, in his idiosyncratic self-centred style, of his discovery of the fractals named after him and Adrien Douady explains the solved and unsolved problems relating to this amusingly complex set.
Table of Contents
Frontiers of Chaos.- Special Sections.- 1 Verhulst Dynamics.- 2 Julia Sets and Their Computergraphical Generation.- 3 Sullivan's Classification of Critical Points.- 4 The Mandelbrot Set.- 5 External Angles and Hubbard Trees.- 6 Newton's Method for Complex Polynomials: Cayley's Problem.- 7 Newton's Method for Real Equations.- 8 A Discrete Volterra-Lotka System.- Magnetism and Complex Boundaries.- Special Sections.- 9 Yang-Lee Zeros.- 10 Renormalization.- References.- Invited Contributions.- Fractals and the Rebirth of Iteration Theory.- Julia Sets and the Mandelbrot Set.- Freedom, Science, and Aesthetics.- Refractions of Science into Art.- Do it Yourself.- Documentation.
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