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  • Dec 2013

Fractals in Science

Editors:

  1. Armin Bunde

    1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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  2. Shlomo Havlin

    1. Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. A Brief Introduction to Fractal Geometry

    • Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin
    Pages 1-26

  3. Fractals and Self-Organized Criticality

    • Per Bak, Michael Creutz
    Pages 27-48

  4. Fractals in Biology and Medicine: From DNA to the Heartbeat

    • Sergey V. Buldyrev, Ary L. Goldberger, Shlomo Havlin, C.-K. Peng, H. Eugene Stanley
    Pages 49-88

  5. Self-Affine Interfaces

    • János Kertész, Tamás Vicsek
    Pages 89-118

  6. A Primer of Random Walkology

    • George H. Weiss
    Pages 119-162

  7. Polymers

    • Mohamed Daoud
    Pages 163-196

  8. Kinetics and Spatial Organization of Competitive Reactions

    • Sidney Redner, Francois Leyvraz
    Pages 197-228

  9. Fractal Analysis in Heterogeneous Chemistry

    • David Avnir, Ricardo Gutfraind, Dina Farin
    Pages 229-256

  10. Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity

    • Dennis C. Rapaport, Martin Meyer
    Pages 257-280

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 281-300
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About this book

The fractal concept has become an important tool for understanding irregular complex systems in various scientific disciplines. This book discusses in great detail fractals in biology, heterogeneous chemistry, polymers, and the earth sciences. Beginning with a general introduction to fractal geometry it continues with eight chapters on self-organized criticality, rough surfaces and interfaces, random walks, chemical reactions, and fractals in chemistry, biology, and medicine. A special chapter entitled "Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity" presents computer demonstrations of fractal models.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Armin Bunde

  • Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Shlomo Havlin

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