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Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos: Discovering a New Aesthetic of Art, Science, and Nature (A Touchstone Book)

Sun, 01 Nov 1992 00:00:00 GMT


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Fractals are unique patterns left behind by the unpredictable movements -- the chaos -- of the world at work. The branching patterns of trees, the veins in a hand, water twisting out of a running tap -- (more)

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT


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Fractal geometry is the geometry of the natural world. It mirrors the uneven but real shapes of nature, the world as we actually experience it. Introducing Fractal Geometry traces the development of this (more)

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT


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Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so (more)

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT


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Since its original publication in 1990, Kenneth Falconer's Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications has become a seminal text on the mathematics of fractals. It introduces the general (more)

Fri, 09 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT


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It has only been a couple of decades since Benoit Mandelbrot published his famous picture of what is now called the Mandelbrot set. That picture, now seeming graphically primitive, has changed our view (more)

Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT


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This introduction to topology provides separate, in-depth coverage of both general topology and algebraic topology. Includes many examples and figures. GENERAL TOPOLOGY. Set Theory and Logic. Topological (more)

Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00:00 GMT


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Over 140 examples, preceded by a succinct exposition of general topology and basic terminology. Each example treated as a whole. Over 25 Venn diagrams and charts summarize properties of the examples, while (more)

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT


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This book is an introductory graduate-level textbook on the theory of smooth manifolds. Its goal is to familiarize students with the tools they will need in order to use manifolds in mathematical or (more)

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT


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The amazing story of one of the greatest math problems of all time and the reclusive genius who solved it In the tradition of Fermat?s Enigma and Prime Obsession, George Szpiro brings to life the giants (more)

Sun, 01 Jul 1990 00:00:00 GMT


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An undergraduate introduction to the fundamentals of topology ? engagingly written, filled with helpful insights, complete with many stimulating and imaginative exercises to help students develop a solid (more)