The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems

Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Peter H. Richter

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2011-10-14
  • 售價: $4,410
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,190
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 202
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 3642617190
  • ISBN-13: 9783642617195
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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.