Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!echrzanowski From: echrzanowski@watcgl.UUCP (echrzanowski) Newsgroups: net.books,net.math,net.graphics Subject: Re: Books on fractals & chaotic attractors Message-ID: <559@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 10:20:06 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.559 Posted: Wed Nov 28 10:20:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 02:08:24 EST References: <101@denelvx.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 14 The two classic books on fractals that you should be aware of are FRACTALS form, chance, and dimension (ISBN 0-7167-0473-0) The Fractal Geometry of Nature (ISBN 0-7167-1186-9) Both books are published by W. H. Freeman and Company San Francisco and the author is Benoit B. Mandelbrot. Another very good reference on chaotic behaviour is in a periodical entitled Physica D (Netherlands). Proceedings of the International Conference on Order in Chaos. Vol. 7D, No. 1-3, Los Alamos NM USA 24-28 May 1982. There are papers in in this publication by Feigenbaum (chaos theory) and Mandelbrot.