Fractals and Chaos Simplified



This is demo of a New Book and Teaching Tutorial under preparation.



by

Larry S. Liebovitch

Center for Complex Systems

Florida Atlantic University

777 Glades Road

Telephone: (561) 297-2239

FAX: (561) 297-2223

email: LIEBOVITCH@WALT.CCS.FAU.EDU





This book explains the properties of fractals and chaos and illustrates them with examples from biology and medicine. The aim is to provide a basic understanding to people who are unfamiliar and/or afraid of mathematics.


The ideas are presented both in words and in pictures.


Enough mathemtical detail is given so that biomedical scientists can learn how use these methods in their own research.



INDEX

Part I Fractals

  1. Introduction
  2. Self-Similarity
  3. Scaling/LI>
  4. Dimension
  5. Statistical Properties
  6. Summary and References


Part II Chaos

  1. Introduction
  2. Phase Space
  3. Sensitivity to Initial Conditions
  4. Bifurcations
  5. Analyzing Data
  6. Control of Chaos
  7. Summary and References


Part III Other Methods

  1. The Big Picture




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