Discovery of cosmic fractals /
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| Language: | English |
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River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Benoit Mandelbrot
- part I. The Science of Cosmic Order
- Ch. 1. The birth of cosmological principles
- Ch. 2. The gate into cosmic order
- Ch. 3. The Paradoxal Universe of Sir Isaac
- Ch. 4. The dream of a hierarchical world: protofractals
- Ch. II. Cosmological Physics for the Realm of Galaxies
- Ch. 5. The new world of relativity and quantum forces
- Ch. 6. Gravity
- the enigmatic creator of order
- Ch. 7. The law of redshift in the kingdom of galaxies
- Ch. 8. The triumph of uniformity in cosmology
- part III. The Elusive Simplicity of Uniform Space and Matter
- Ch. 9. The mysterious singularity.
- Ch. 10. Dark matter
- the grey eminence
- Ch. 11. Dark energy
- the new emperor
- Ch. 12. Expansion and curvature of space
- part IV. The Fractal Architecture of the Universe
- Ch. 13. Cosmic hierarchies: from dream to science
- Ch. 14. The charm of self-similarity
- Ch. 15. Fractal and chaos: planets, stardust, dark haloes
- Ch. 16. Redshift
- the quiet cosmographer
- Ch. 17. Fractal structure of the galaxy universe
- Ch. 18. The Origins of Megafractals.