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Introducing Fractal Geometry

Author:
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon; Will Rood; Ralph Edney
Illustrator:
Description:
Fractal Geometry is the geometry of the natural world -- animal, vegetable and mineral. It's about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world -- the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealized forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals everywhere; indeed we are fractal! Fractal Geometry is an extension of classical geometry. Using computers, it can make precise models of physical structures, from ferns to galaxies. Fractal geometry is a new language. Once you speak it, you can describe the shape of a cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house.