Fractals And Universal Spaces In Dimension Theory

Author : Stephen Lipscomb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387854940
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals and Universal Spaces in Dimension Theory written by Stephen Lipscomb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, for metric spaces the quest for universal spaces in dimension theory spanned approximately a century of mathematical research. The history breaks naturally into two periods - the classical (separable metric) and the modern (not-necessarily separable metric). The classical theory is now well documented in several books. This monograph is the first book to unify the modern theory from 1960-2007. Like the classical theory, the modern theory fundamentally involves the unit interval. Unique features include: * The use of graphics to illustrate the fractal view of these spaces; * Lucid coverage of a range of topics including point-set topology and mapping theory, fractal geometry, and algebraic topology; * A final chapter contains surveys and provides historical context for related research that includes other imbedding theorems, graph theory, and closed imbeddings; * Each chapter contains a comment section that provides historical context with references that serve as a bridge to the literature. This monograph will be useful to topologists, to mathematicians working in fractal geometry, and to historians of mathematics. Being the first monograph to focus on the connection between generalized fractals and universal spaces in dimension theory, it will be a natural text for graduate seminars or self-study - the interested reader will find many relevant open problems which will create further research into these topics.

Author : Gerald A. Edgar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781475741353
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measure, Topology, and Fractal Geometry written by Gerald A. Edgar and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K.P. Hart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 946239024X
Total Pages : 903 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Progress in General Topology III written by K.P. Hart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents surveys describing recent developments in most of the primary subfields of General Topology, and its applications to Algebra and Analysis during the last decade, following the previous editions (North Holland, 1992 and 2002). The book was prepared in connection with the Prague Topological Symposium, held in 2011. During the last 10 years the focus in General Topology changed and therefore the selection of topics differs from that chosen in 2002. The following areas experienced significant developments: Fractals, Coarse Geometry/Topology, Dimension Theory, Set Theoretic Topology and Dynamical Systems.

Author : Stephen Leon Lipscomb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319062549
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Meets Mathematics in the Fourth Dimension written by Stephen Leon Lipscomb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To see objects that live in the fourth dimension we humans would need to add a fourth dimension to our three-dimensional vision. An example of such an object that lives in the fourth dimension is a hyper-sphere or “3-sphere.” The quest to imagine the elusive 3-sphere has deep historical roots: medieval poet Dante Alighieri used a 3-sphere to convey his allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife in his Divine Comedy. In 1917, Albert Einstein visualized the universe as a 3-sphere, describing this imagery as “the place where the reader’s imagination boggles. Nobody can imagine this thing.” Over time, however, understanding of the concept of a dimension evolved. By 2003, a researcher had successfully rendered into human vision the structure of a 4-web (think of an ever increasingly-dense spider’s web). In this text, Stephen Lipscomb takes his innovative dimension theory research a step further, using the 4-web to reveal a new partial image of a 3-sphere. Illustrations support the reader’s understanding of the mathematics behind this process. Lipscomb describes a computer program that can produce partial images of a 3-sphere and suggests methods of discerning other fourth-dimensional objects that may serve as the basis for future artwork.

Author : Andreas M. Hinz
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319737791
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths written by Andreas M. Hinz and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solitaire game “The Tower of Hanoi" was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. The book presents its mathematical theory and offers a survey of the historical development from predecessors up to recent research. In addition to long-standing myths, it provides a detailed overview of the essential mathematical facts with complete proofs, and also includes unpublished material, e.g., on some captivating integer sequences. The main objects of research today are the so-called Hanoi graphs and the related Sierpiński graphs. Acknowledging the great popularity of the topic in computer science, algorithms, together with their correctness proofs, form an essential part of the book. In view of the most important practical applications, namely in physics, network theory and cognitive (neuro)psychology, the book also addresses other structures related to the Tower of Hanoi and its variants. The updated second edition includes, for the first time in English, the breakthrough reached with the solution of the “The Reve's Puzzle" in 2014. This is a special case of the famed Frame-Stewart conjecture which is still open after more than 75 years. Enriched with elaborate illustrations, connections to other puzzles and challenges for the reader in the form of (solved) exercises as well as problems for further exploration, this book is enjoyable reading for students, educators, game enthusiasts and researchers alike. Excerpts from reviews of the first edition: “The book is an unusual, but very welcome, form of mathematical writing: recreational mathematics taken seriously and serious mathematics treated historically. I don’t hesitate to recommend this book to students, professional research mathematicians, teachers, and to readers of popular mathematics who enjoy more technical expository detail.” Chris Sangwin, The Mathematical Intelligencer 37(4) (2015) 87f. “The book demonstrates that the Tower of Hanoi has a very rich mathematical structure, and as soon as we tweak the parameters we surprisingly quickly find ourselves in the realm of open problems.” László Kozma, ACM SIGACT News 45(3) (2014) 34ff. “Each time I open the book I discover a renewed interest in the Tower of Hanoi. I am sure that this will be the case for all readers.” Jean-Paul Allouche, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society 93 (2014) 56.

Author : Laurent Nottale
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810208783
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractal Space-time and Microphysics written by Laurent Nottale and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed account of a new approach to microphysics based on two leading ideas: (i) the explicit dependence of physical laws on scale encountered in quantum physics, is the manifestation of a fundamental principle of nature, scale relativity. This generalizes Einstein's principle of (motion) relativity to scale transformations; (ii) the mathematical achievement of this principle needs the introduction of a nondifferentiable space-time varying with resolution, i.e. characterized by its fractal properties.The author discusses in detail reactualization of the principle of relativity and its application to scale transformations, physical laws which are explicitly scale dependent, and fractals as a new geometric description of space-time.

Author : Gerald A. Edgar
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classics On Fractals written by Gerald A. Edgar and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1993-08-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classics on Fractals collects for the first time the papers on fractal geometry. This compendium is an invaluable reference for all researchers and students of fractal geometry. Of particular value are the 12 papers that have been translated into English for the first time. Commentary by Professor Edgar explains the context of each paper.

Author : Keith R. Wicks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354046610X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals and Hyperspaces written by Keith R. Wicks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to all readers with an interest in fractals, hyperspaces, fixed-point theory, tilings and nonstandard analysis, this book presents its subject in an original and accessible way complete with many figures. The first part of the book develops certain hyperspace theory concerning the Hausdorff metric and the Vietoris topology, as a foundation for what follows on self-similarity and fractality. A major feature is that nonstandard analysis is used to obtain new proofs of some known results much more slickly than before. The theory of J.E. Hutchinson's invariant sets (sets composed of smaller images of themselves) is developed, with a study of when such a set is tiled by its images and a classification of many invariant sets as either regular or residual. The last and most original part of the book introduces the notion of a "view" as part of a framework for studying the structure of sets within a given space. This leads to new, elegant concepts (defined purely topologically) of self-similarity and fractality: in particular, the author shows that many invariant sets are "visually fractal", i.e. have infinite detail in a certain sense. These ideas have considerable scope for further development, and a list of problems and lines of research is included.

Author : Laurent Nottale
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814520217
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractal Space-time And Microphysics: Towards A Theory Of Scale Relativity written by Laurent Nottale and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993-04-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed account of a new approach to microphysics based on two leading ideas: (i) the explicit dependence of physical laws on scale encountered in quantum physics, is the manifestation of a fundamental principle of nature, scale relativity. This generalizes Einstein's principle of (motion) relativity to scale transformations; (ii) the mathematical achievement of this principle needs the introduction of a nondifferentiable space-time varying with resolution, i.e. characterized by its fractal properties.The author discusses in detail reactualization of the principle of relativity and its application to scale transformations, physical laws which are explicitly scale dependent, and fractals as a new geometric description of space-time.

Author : Patricia Alonso Ruiz
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811215545
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysis, Probability And Mathematical Physics On Fractals written by Patricia Alonso Ruiz and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 50 years since Mandelbrot identified the fractality of coastlines, mathematicians and physicists have developed a rich and beautiful theory describing the interplay between analytic, geometric and probabilistic aspects of the mathematics of fractals. Using classical and abstract analytic tools developed by Cantor, Hausdorff, and Sierpinski, they have sought to address fundamental questions: How can we measure the size of a fractal set? How do waves and heat travel on irregular structures? How are analysis, geometry and stochastic processes related in the absence of Euclidean smooth structure? What new physical phenomena arise in the fractal-like settings that are ubiquitous in nature?This book introduces background and recent progress on these problems, from both established leaders in the field and early career researchers. The book gives a broad introduction to several foundational techniques in fractal mathematics, while also introducing some specific new and significant results of interest to experts, such as that waves have infinite propagation speed on fractals. It contains sufficient introductory material that it can be read by new researchers or researchers from other areas who want to learn about fractal methods and results.