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GLOSSARY
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Syncretism: the fusion of two or more
originally different inflectional concepts
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- 1. Mandelbrot Benoit B. The Fractal
Geometry of Nature, W. H. Freeman &
Company, N. Y., 1983.
- The fundamental book; clear mathematical
explanations, good illustrations
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- 2. Peitgen Heinz-Otto & others
- The Beauty of Fractals,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986
- The Science of Fractal Images,
Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1988
- Two easy to read books with clear explanations,
high-resolution computer-generated images
- and examples of applications.
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- 3. Lauwerier Hans, Fractals, Endless
Repeated Geometrical Figures, Penguin books,
London, 1991
- A clear presentation of the basic mathematics of
fractals with the source code of computer software
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- 4. Peitgen Heinz-Otto, Jürgens Hartmut
& Saupe Dietmar
- Chaos & Fractals New Frontiers of
Science, Springer-Verlag, N.Y, 1992
- A complete book describing the details of chaos
theory and fractal geometry as of 1992
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- 5. Lesmoir-Gordon Nigel & others,
Introducing Fractal Geometry, Icon
books, UK, 2000
- A very easy book to read and comprehend. If you
need a simple book on fractal geometry, this is the
one.
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- 6. Wolfram Stephen, A New Kind of
Science, Wolfram Media, Inc, 2002
- A very comprehensive book about experimental
computing (1197+ pages) with a presentation of the
principle of computational equivalence of S. Wolfram.
Brief but good presentation of fractals
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