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From Newton to Mandelbrot : A Primer in Theoretical Physics with Fractals for the Macintosh (R) by Lesne, Annick;Stanley, H. Eugene;Stauffer, Dietrich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Nature is full of spidery patterns: lightning bolts, coastlines, nerve cells, termite tunnels, bacteria cultures, root systems, forest fires, soil cracking, river deltas, galactic distributions, mountain ranges, tidal patterns, cloud shapes, sequencing of nucleotides in DNA, cauliflower, broccoli, lungs, kidneys, the scraggly nerve cells that carry signals to and from your brain, the branching arteries and veins that make up your circulatory system. These and other similar patterns in nature are called natural fractals or random fractals. This chapter contains activities that describe random fractals. There are two kinds of fractals: mathematical fractals and natural (or random) fractals. A mathematical fractal can be described by a mathematical formula. Given this formula, the resulting structure is always identically the same (though it may be colored in different ways). In contrast, natural fractals never repeat themselves; each one is unique, different from all others. This is because these processes are frequently equivalent to coin-flipping, plus a few simple rules. Nature is full of random fractals. In this book you will explore a few of the many random fractals in Nature. B

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Author

Lesne, Annick;Stanley, H. Eugene;Stauffer, Dietrich

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9783662536834

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Mathematics