Manfred Schroeder.
Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: minutes from an infinite paradise.
Freeman. 1991
In Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws,
Manfred Schroeder demonstrates how the concept of self-similarity
illuminates our understanding of the universe.
The connections between abstract mathematics and everyday experience become clear,
as Schroeder explores exciting recent mathematical developments
(intergalactic voids, non-linear dynamics, the Mandelbrot set, among others)
and reveals the self-similar aspects of snowflakes, concert hall acoustics,
pinball machines, computer graphics, the theory of relativity, and much more.