Fractals in Science
Author | : Armin Bunde |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-12-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783642779534 |
ISBN-13 | : 3642779530 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A deeply detailed discussion of fractals in biology, heterogeneous chemistry, polymers, and the earth sciences. Beginning with a general introduction to fractal geometry it continues with eight chapters on self-organized criticality, rough surfaces and interfaces, random walks, chemical reactions, and fractals in chemisty, biology, and medicine. A special chapter entitled "Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity" presents computer demonstrations of fractal models: 14 programs are included on a 3 1/2" MS-DOS diskette which run on any PC with at least 1 MB RAM and a EGA or VGA graphics card, 16 colors.