Chaos and Fractals : An Elementary Introduction / by D. P. Feldman. [Electronic Resource]
Material type: Computer filePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2012ISBN:- 9780199566433
- 514.742 F333C
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This book provides an elementary introduction to chaos and fractals. It introduces the key phenomena of chaos - aperiodicity, sensitive dependence on initial conditions, bifurcations - via simple iterated functions. Fractals are introduced as self-similar geometric objects and analysed with the self-similarity and box-counting dimensions. After a brief discussion of power laws, subsequent chapters explore Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set. The last part of the book examines two-dimensional dynamical systems, strange attractors, cellular automata, and chaotic differential equations.
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