Dynamical systems and fractals : computer graphics experiments in Pascal /

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Author / Creator:Becker, Karl-Heinz.
Uniform title:Computergrafische Experimente mit Pascal. English
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Description:xii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4287424
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Other authors / contributors:Dörfler, Michael.
ISBN:0521360250
052136910X (pbk.)
Notes:Translation of: Computergrafische Experimente mit Pascal.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-392).
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: new directions in computer graphics: experimental mathematics
  • Preface to the German edition
  • 1. Researchers discover chaos
  • 2. Between order and chaos: Feigenbaum diagrams
  • 3. Strange attractors
  • 4. Greetings from Sir Isaac
  • 5. Complex frontiers
  • 6. Encounter with the gingerbread man
  • 7. New sights - new insights
  • 8. Fractal computer graphics
  • 9. Step by step into chaos
  • 10. Journey to the land of infinite structures
  • 11. Building blocks for graphics experiments
  • 12. Pascal and the fig-trees
  • 13. Appendices
  • Index