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A presentation of results on the largest fractal structures in the universe. It seeks to guide the reader, in a simple way, to the frontiers of astronomy, explaining how fractals appear in cosmic physics, from our solar system to the megafractals in deep space. It also offers a personal view of the history of the idea of self-similarity and of cosmological principles, from Plato's ideal architecture of the heavens to Mandelbrot's fractals in the modern physical cosmos. In addition, it discusses the great fractal debate in astronomy (after Luciano Pietronero's first fractal analysis of the galaxy universe), which illustrates how new concepts and deeper observations reveal unexpected aspects of nature.

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Author:   Yurij Baryshev (St Petersburg Univ, Russia) ,  Pekka Teerikorpi (Univ Of Turku, Finland) ,  Benoit Mandelbrot
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9789810248727

ISBN 10:   9810248725
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   15 October 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Contents: The Science of Cosmic Order: The Birth of Cosmological Principles; The Gate into Cosmic Order; The Paradoxal Universe of Sir Isaac; The Dream of Hierarchical World: Protofractals; Cosmological Physics for the Realm of Galaxies: The New World of Relativity and Quantum Forces; Gravity - The Enigmatic Creator of Order; The Law of Redshift in the Kingdom of Galaxies; The Triumph of Uniformity in Cosmology; The Elusive Simplicity of Uniform Space and Matter: The Mysterious Singularity; Dark Matter - The Grey Eminence; Dark Energy - The New Emperor; Expansion and Curvature of Space; The Fractal Architecture of the Universe: Cosmic Hierarchies - From Dream to Science; The Charm of Self-Similarity; Fractals and Chaos: Planets, Stardust, Dark Haloes; The Redshift - Quiet Cosmographer; Fractal Structure of the Galaxy Universe; The Origins of Megafractals.

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