Fractals in Science
Published on 14. March 2014
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-3-662-11776-7 (ISBN)
Description
The fractal concept has become an important tool for understanding irregular complex systems in various scientific disciplines. This book discusses in great detail fractals in biology, heterogeneous chemistry, polymers, and the earth sciences. Beginning with a general introduction to fractal geometry it continues with eight chapters on self-organized criticality, rough surfaces and interfaces, random walks, chemical reactions, and fractals in chemistry, biology, and medicine. A special chapter entitled "Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity" presents computer demonstrations of fractal models.
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Edition
1994 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
62 s/w Abbildungen, 33 farbige Abbildungen
62 black & white illustrations, 33 colour illustrations, biography
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-662-11776-7 (9783662117767)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-11777-4
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Content
A Brief Introduction to Fractal Geometry.- Fractals and Self-Organized Criticality.- Fractals in Biology and Medicine: From DNA to the Heartbeat.- Self-Affine Interfaces.- A Primer of Random Walkology.- Polymers.- Kinetics and Spatial Organization of Competitive Reactions.- Fractal Analysis in Heterogeneous Chemistry.- Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity.