A Tale Of Two Fractals
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Author | : A.A. Kirillov |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0817683828 |
Since Benoit Mandelbrot's pioneering work in the late 1970s, scores of research articles and books have been published on the topic of fractals. Despite the volume of literature in the field, the general level of theoretical understanding has remained low; most work is aimed either at too mainstream an audience to achieve any depth or at too specialized a community to achieve widespread use. Written by celebrated mathematician and educator A.A. Kirillov, A Tale of Two Fractals is intended to help bridge this gap, providing an original treatment of fractals that is at once accessible to beginners and sufficiently rigorous for serious mathematicians. The work is designed to give young, non-specialist mathematicians a solid foundation in the theory of fractals, and, in the process, to equip them with exposure to a variety of geometric, analytical, and algebraic tools with applications across other areas.
Author | : Benoit Mandelbrot |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030738991X |
Here is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics, the financial world, and the arts. Mandelbrot recounts his early years in Warsaw and in Paris, where he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle, through his days evading the Nazis in occupied France, to his education at Caltech, Princeton, and MIT, and his illustrious career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. An outside to mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others had thought impossible: develop a new geometry that combines revelatory beauty with a radical way of unfolding formerly hidden scientific laws. In the process he was able to use geometry to solve fresh, real-world problems. With exuberance and an eloquent fluency, Benoit Mandelbrot recounts the high points of his fascinating life, offering us a glimpse into the evolution of his extraordinary mind. With full-color inserts and black-and-white photographs throughout.
Author | : Julien C. Sprott |
Publisher | : M & T Books |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9781558512986 |
Chaos and fractals are new mathematical ideas that have revolutionized our view of the world. They have application in virtually every academic discipline. This book shows examples of the artistic beauty that can arise from very simple equations, and teaches the reader how to produce an endless variety of such patterns. Disk includes a full working version of the program.
Author | : Palle E. T. Jorgensen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007-10-17 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0387330828 |
Combines analysis and tools from probability, harmonic analysis, operator theory, and engineering (signal/image processing) Interdisciplinary focus with hands-on approach, generous motivation and new pedagogical techniques Numerous exercises reinforce fundamental concepts and hone computational skills Separate sections explain engineering terms to mathematicians and operator theory to engineers Fills a gap in the literature
Author | : Patricia Owens |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108494692 |
The first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought, analysing leading international thinkers of the twentieth century.
Author | : Wendy Brant |
Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1525300261 |
This sparkling debut novel, about a 17-year-old math genius can see others' emotions by just touching an object that belongs to that person, offers an irresistible combination of math and romance, with just a hint of the paranormal.
Author | : Indubala I Satija |
Publisher | : Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1681741814 |
Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indu Satija, with contributions by Douglas Hofstadter, is the first book ever to tell the story of the "Hofstadter butterfly", a beautiful and fascinating graph lying at the heart of the quantum theory of matter. The butterfly came out of a simple-sounding question: What happens if you immerse a crystal in a magnetic field? What energies can the electrons take on? From 1930 onwards, physicists struggled to answer this question, until 1974, when graduate student Douglas Hofstadter discovered that the answer was a graph consisting of nothing but copies of itself nested down infinitely many times. This wild mathematical object caught the physics world totally by surprise, and it continues to mesmerize physicists and mathematicians today. The butterfly plot is intimately related to many other important phenomena in number theory and physics, including Apollonian gaskets, the Foucault pendulum, quasicrystals, the quantum Hall effect, and many more. Its story reflects the magic, the mystery, and the simplicity of the laws of nature, and Indu Satija, in a wonderfully personal style, relates this story, enriching it with a vast number of lively historical anecdotes, many photographs, beautiful visual images, and even poems, making her book a great feast, for the eyes, for the mind and for the soul.
Author | : Ron Eglash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780813526140 |
Fractals are characterized by the repetition of similar patterns at ever-diminishing scales. Fractal geometry has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers on the border between mathematics and information technology and can be seen in many of the swirling patterns produced by computer graphics. It has become a new tool for modeling in biology, geology, and other natural sciences. Anthropologists have observed that the patterns produced in different cultures can be characterized by specific design themes. In Europe and America, we often see cities laid out in a grid pattern of straight streets and right-angle corners. In contrast, traditional African settlements tend to use fractal structures-circles of circles of circular dwellings, rectangular walls enclosing ever-smaller rectangles, and streets in which broad avenues branch down to tiny footpaths with striking geometric repetition. These indigenous fractals are not limited to architecture; their recursive patterns echo throughout many disparate African designs and knowledge systems. Drawing on interviews with African designers, artists, and scientists, Ron Eglash investigates fractals in African architecture, traditional hairstyling, textiles, sculpture, painting, carving, metalwork, religion, games, practical craft, quantitative techniques, and symbolic systems. He also examines the political and social implications of the existence of African fractal geometry. His book makes a unique contribution to the study of mathematics, African culture, anthropology, and computer simulations.
Author | : Benoit B. Mandelbrot |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1847651550 |
This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has got to the bottom of how financial markets really work. He finds they have a shifting sense of time and wild behaviour that makes them volatile, dangerous - and beautiful. In his models, the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.
Author | : Sergei V. Rogosin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3034804172 |
This book contains survey papers based on the lectures presented at the 3rd International Winter School “Modern Problems of Mathematics and Mechanics” held in January 2010 at the Belarusian State University, Minsk. These lectures are devoted to different problems of modern analysis and its applications. An extended presentation of modern problems of applied analysis will enable the reader to get familiar with new approaches of mostly interdisciplinary character. The results discussed are application oriented and present new insight into applied problems of growing importance such as applications to composite materials, anomalous diffusion, and fluid dynamics.