The fractal geometry of nature / (Record no. 131798)

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International Standard Book Number 9780716711865
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Classification number QA 447
Item number .M357 1983
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
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Title The fractal geometry of nature /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
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Edition statement Updated and augm.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. W.H. Freeman,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c1983.
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Extent 468 p. :
Other physical details ill., (some col.) ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-443 and indexes.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. Introduction -- Theme -- The irregular and fragmented in nature -- Dimension, symmetry, divergence -- Variations and disclaimers -- 2. Three classic fractals, tamed -- How long is the coasts of Britain? -- Snowflakes and other Koch curves -- Harnessing the Peano Monster curves -- Fractal events and Cantor dusts -- 3. Galaxies and eddies -- Fractal view of galaxy clusters -- Geometry of turbulence; Intermittency -- Fractal singularities of differential equations -- 4. Scaling fractals -- Length-area-volume relations -- Islands, clusters and percolation; Diameter-number relations -- Ramification and fractal lattices -- 5. Nonscaling fractals -- Surfaces with positive volume, and flesh -- Trees; Scaling residues; nonuniform fractals -- Trees and the diameter exponent -- 6. Self-mapping fractals -- Self-inverse fractals, Apollonian nets and soap -- Cantor and fatou dusts; Self-squared dragons -- Fractal attractors and fractal (Chaotic) evolutions -- 7. Randomness -- Chance as a tool in model making -- Conditional stationarity and cosmographic principles -- 8. Stratified random fractals -- Random curds: contact clusters and fractal percolation -- Random chains and squigs -- Brownian motion and brown fractals -- Random midpoint displacement curves -- 9. Fractional brown fractals -- River discharges; scaling nets and noises -- Relief and coastlines -- The areas of Islands, lakes and cups -- Isothermal surfaces of homogeneous turbulence -- 10. Random tremas; Texture -- Interval tremas; Linear levy dusts -- Subordination; Spatial levy dusts; ordered galaxies -- Disc and sphere tremas: moon craters and galaxies -- Texture: gaps and lacunarity; Cirri and succolarity -- General tremas, and the control of texture -- 11. Miscellany -- Logic of fractals in statistical lattice physics -- Price change and scaling in economics -- Scaling and power laws without geometry -- Mathematical backup and addenda -- 12. Of men and ideas -- Biographical sketches -- Historical sketches -- The path to fractals.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Geometry.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Mathematical models.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Stochastic processes.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Fractals.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Probability.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Mathematics.
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Uncontrolled term Fractals
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Uncontrolled term Geometry
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Uncontrolled term Mathematical models
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Uncontrolled term Stochastic processes
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Relationship information Online version:
Main entry heading Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
Title Fractal geometry of nature.
Edition Updated and augmented.
Place, publisher, and date of publication San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, c1983
Record control number (OCoLC)756466301
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