Fractals: A User's Guide for the Natural Sciences (Oxford Science Publications) - Hardcover

Hastings, Harold M.; Sugihara, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198545983 ISBN 13: 9780198545989

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Fractals: A User's Guide for the Natural Sciences explains Mandelbrot's fractal geometry and describes some of its applications in the natural world. Written to enable students and researchers to master the methods of this timely subject, the book steers a middle course between the formality of many papers in mathematics and the informality of picture-orientated books on fractals. It is both a logically developed text and an essential `fractals for users' handbook.

About this title

About the Author

Harold M. Hastings is at Hofstra College, Hempstead, New York. George Sugihara is at University of California, San Diego.

Review

'take the novitiate in a given discipline through the subtleties of fractal dimension, random fractals, Hurst exponents and so on, in a way that illuminates the field of study, thereby making it a working tool for the would be practitioner ... an excellent book from which even those that have been working in this area for a long time have something to learn. I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in how to apply these new and exciting techniques to the understanding of natural phenomena.' Bruce J. West, University of North Texas, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0198545983
• ISBN 13: 9780198545989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248