Discovery of Cosmic Fractals - Hardcover

Baryshev, Yurij; Teerikorpi, Pekka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810248717 ISBN 13: 9789810248710

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2002

Synopsis

This is the first book to present the fascinating new results on the largest fractal structures in the universe. It guides the reader, in a simple way, to the frontiers of astronomy, explaining how fractals appear in cosmic physics, from our solar system to the megafractals in deep space. It also offers a personal view of the history of the idea of self-similarity and of cosmological principles, from Plato's ideal architecture of the heavens to Mandelbrot's fractals in the modern physical cosmos. In addition, this invaluable book presents the great fractal debate in astronomy (after Luciano Pietronero's first fractal analysis of the galaxy universe), which illustrates how new concepts and deeper observations reveal unexpected aspects of Nature.

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Review

...a stimulating book, more than half of which stands alone as a first-rate historical primer on astronomy and cosmology. -- New Scientist, Jan 2003

...gives a clear review of the development of cosmology from the days of the Babylonians... -- Emeritus Professor Fred Rost, University of New South Wales

...strong admiration for the authors’ expository skills and I am wowed by the historical and geographical breadth of their scholarship. -- — from the foreword by Benoit Mandelbrot

first comprehensive and self-contained account of the development of the cosmological ideas -- Europhysics News, Jan/Feb 2004

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9810248717
• ISBN 13: 9789810248710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408