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fractal geometries, theory and applications

By Alain Le Mehaute

Book information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
1991
ISBN
9780849377228, 0849377226
LCC
QA614.86 .L413 1991
Open Library ID
OL1540407M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4587112 bytes)
Pages
97\97
Library
kolxoz
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Fractal geometry, based on recursive mathematical schemas, provides a means for modeling a great number of natural phenomena. For this reason, it is of increasing interest to physicists, chemists, biologists, and geographers, among others. A major quality of fractality is that it not only unifies phenomena previously thought to be anomalous or disparate in a single theoretical framework, but it also promotes a return to graphical treatment, which had been almost completely banished from scientific thought in favor of analysis.This book casts a new, lively light on scientific territories still not fully explored. It is designed for research workers, engineers, and experimentalists faced with problems of measure and action in heterogenous materials and environments. Several color plates illustrate the implications and consequences of this theory for most of the questions raised by the taking into consideration of time in a fractal space.

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