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The fractal geometry of nature
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W.H. Freeman
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The irregular and fragmented in nature
Dimension, symmetry, divergence
Variations and disclaimers
Three classic fractals, tamed
How long is the coasts of Britain?
Snowflakes and other Koch curves
Harnessing the Peano Monster curves
Fractal events and Cantor dusts
Galaxies and eddies
Fractal view of galaxy clusters
Geometry of turbulence; Intermittency
Fractal singularities of differential equations
Scaling fractals
Length-area-volume relations
Islands, clusters and percolation; Diameter-number relations
Ramification and fractal lattices
Nonscaling fractals
Surfaces with positive volume, and flesh
Trees; Scaling residues; nonuniform fractals
Trees and the diameter exponent
Self-mapping fractals
Self-inverse fractals, Apollonian nets and soap
Cantor and fatou dusts; Self-squared dragons
Fractal attractors and fractal (Chaotic) evolutions
Randomness
Chance as a tool in model making
Conditional stationarity and cosmographic principles
Stratified random fractals
Random curds: contact clusters and fractal percolation
Random chains and squigs
Brownian motion and brown fractals
Random midpoint displacement curves
Fractional brown fractals
River discharges; scaling nets and noises
Relief and coastlines
The areas of Islands, lakes and cups
Isothermal surfaces of homogeneous turbulence
Random tremas; Texture
Interval tremas; Linear levy dusts
Subordination; Spatial levy dusts; ordered galaxies
Disc and sphere tremas: moon craters and galaxies
Texture: gaps and lacunarity; Cirri and succolarity
General tremas, and the control of texture
Miscellany
Logic of fractals in statistical lattice physics
Price change and scaling in economics
Scaling and power laws without geometry
Mathematical backup and addenda
Of men and ideas
The path to fractals.
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9780716711865
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