Authors:Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: fractals, chaos, introduction, part, classroom
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 1991-10-22
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 038797041X
ISBN-13: 9780387970417

Published in cooperation with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this text is based on lectures given to various communities of teachers and students. Written especially for teachers and intended for classroom use at high school and college levels, the book also can be used for independent study.

Authors:Maxim I. Stamenov, Earl R. Mac Cormac, Earl MacCorma
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: fractals, advances, consciousness, research, bond, symmetry, brain, mind, search
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 1996-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027251274
ISBN-13: 9789027251275

This volume discusses the possibilities of modelling different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the possibility of brain and mind to implement nonlinear dynamic patterns in their functioning. The contributors discuss the following topics, amongst others: the fractal timing of the neural functioning on different scales of brain networking; the edge-of-chaos dynamics in recursively organized neural systems and in intersensory interaction; aspects of

Author: Michael F. Barnsley
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: everywhere, fractals
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 2000-04-18
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0120790696
ISBN-13: 9780120790692

This volume is the second edition of the highly successful Fractals Everywhere. The Focus of this text is how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world. This edition of Fractals Everywhere is the most up-to-date fractal textbook available today.Fractals Everywhere may be supplemented by Michael F. Barnsley’s Desktop Fractal Design System (version 2.0) with IBM for Macintosh software. The Desktop Fractal Design System 2.0 is a tool for designing Iterated Function Systems codes and fractal images, and makes an excellent supplement to a course on fractal ge

Author: Clifford Reiter
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: visualization, fractals
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $98.96
ISBN-10: 1430319801
ISBN-13: 9781430319801

An introduction to mathematical visualization including many fractals and using the J programming language. Designed for classroom use or individual learning. J is freely available and no prior experience with J is required. Experiments are hands on explorations that readers can duplicate. Topics include fractals, time series, iterated function systems, chaos and symmetry, cellular automata, complex dynamics, image processing, ray tracing and Open GL.

Author: H. Takayasu
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: science, physical, fractals
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1991-02-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0719034345
ISBN-13: 9780719034343

Author: Gilbert Helmberg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: fractals, acquainted, getting
Number of Pages: 177
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 3110190923
ISBN-13: 9783110190922

The first instance of pre-computer fractals was noted by the French mathematician Gaston Julia. He wondered what a complex polynomial function would look like, such as the ones named after him (in the form of z2 + c, where c is a complex constant with real and imaginary parts). The idea behind this formula is that one takes the x and y coordinates of a point z, and plug them into z in the form of x + i*y, where i is the square root of -1, square this number, and then add c, a constant. Then plug the resulting pair of real and imaginary numbers back into z, run the operation again, and keep doi

Author: Jamie Inglis
Publisher: Prohibited Publications
Keywords: mnemonics, amp, fractals
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-02-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0955681006
ISBN-13: 9780955681004

Fractals & Mnemonics is the second collection of poems by Jamie Inglis. Contains a handful of favourites from The Geometer’s Dreams plus poems from France, from Albania, from a frontline living room, from Cyberville and from new neologisms. Poems about travelling near and far, of times, places and who we are. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, First World City of Literature. ’A voice of our times’ - The Poetry-Index.