Download or read book Chaos and Fractals written by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen chapters of this book cover the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics including: the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, cellular automata, L-systems, percolation and strange attractors. This new edition has been thoroughly revised throughout. The appendices of the original edition were taken out since more recent publications cover this material in more depth. Instead of the focussed computer programs in BASIC, the authors provide 10 interactive JAVA-applets for this second edition.