GLOSSARY

Syncretism: the fusion of two or more originally different inflectional concepts

 BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Mandelbrot Benoit B. The Fractal Geometry of Nature, W. H. Freeman & Company, N. Y., 1983.
The fundamental book; clear mathematical explanations, good illustrations

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.

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

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

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.

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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