Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon Will Rood Introducing Fractals (Paperback) Introducing...

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Introducing FractalsCondition: NewEAN: 9781848310872ISBN: 9781848310872Edition: Revised editionPublisher: Icon BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/03/2009Item Height: 168mmItem Length: 118mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 159gAuthor: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Will RoodIllustrator: Ralph EdneyContributor: Ralph Edney (Illustrated by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: A Graphic GuideDescription: Fractals are the geometry of the natural world. They're about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world- the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealised forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals everywhere; indeed, we are fractals ourselves.Fractal geometry is an extension of classical geometry which can make precise models of physical structures, from ferns to galaxies. It can describe the shape of a cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house.Introducing Fractals traces the historical development of this mathematical discipline, explores its descriptive powers in the natural world, and then looks at the applications and the implications of the discoveries it has made. As John Archibald Wheeler, protégé of Niels Bohr, friend of Albert Einstein and mentor of Richard Feynman has said, 'No one will be considered scientifically literate tomorrow, who is not familiar with fractals.'Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Introducing...Release Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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