Introducing Fractals
A Graphic Guide
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon author Will Rood author Ralph Edney illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Icon Books
Published:3rd Sep '09
Should be back in stock very soon
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.'
ISBN: 9781848310872
Dimensions: 168mm x 118mm x 13mm
Weight: 159g
176 pages
Revised edition