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037			_cTextbook
040			_aCSL _beng _cCSL
041			_aeng
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100			_aPeitgen, Heinz-Otto _9862406
245		0	_aChaos and fractals: new frontiers of science
250			_a2nd
260			_aNew York, _b Springer-Verlag: _c2004.
300			_axiii, 864p. _b: ill.
500			_aBibliography 839-851p.; Index 853-864p.
520			_aAlmost 12 years have passed by since we wrote Chaos and Fractals. At the time we were hoping that our approach of writing a book which would be both accessible without mathematical sophistication and portray these exiting new fields in an authentic manner would find an audience. Now we know it did. We know from many reviews and personal letters that the book is used in a wide range of ways: researchers use it to acquaint themselves, teachers use it in college and university courses, students use it for background reading, and there is also a substantial audience of lay people who just want to know what chaos and fractals are about. Every book that is somewhat technical in nature is likely to have a number of misprints and errors in its first edition. Some of these were caught and brought to our attention by our readers. One of them, Hermann Flaschka, deserves to be thanked in particular for his suggestions and improvements. This second edition has several changes. We have taken out thetwo appendices from the firstedition. At the time of the first edition Yuval Fishers contribution, which we published as an appendix was probably the first complete expository account on fractal image compression. Meanwhile, Yuvals book Fractal Image Compression: Theory and Application appeared and is now the publication to refer to.
650			_aDifferential _9862407
650			_aGeometry _9862408
650			_aMathematics _9862409
700			_aPeitgen, Heinz-Otto _9862406
700			_aJurgens, Hartmut _9862410
700			_aSaupe, Dietmar _9862411
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