Fractals, chaos, power laws
by M. R. Schroeder · first published 1991
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Reveals the extraordinary dimensions of new mathematical insights about the nature of physical reality; explores the powerful applications of these symmetry concepts in physics, chemistry, music, and the visual arts. Includes such areas as deterministic chaos and strange attractors, iterated mappings, nonlinear dynamics, Cayley trees, cellular automata, random fractals and related topics.
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BTW, the book that was briefly mentioned in the article, Fractals, Chaos, and Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Schroeder (http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Chaos-Power-Laws-Infinite/dp/...) is truly excellent, it is written in the form of short pieces collected into chapters investigating a very wide-ranging set of phenomena, ranging from Brownian Motion to self-similarity,…
on “Einstein’s First Proof” ↗I like the treatment in this book https://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Chaos-Power-Laws-Infinite/dp...
on “What's your intuitive understanding of fractional derivatives?” ↗Schroeder, Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws, points out there are probability distributions which follow the Lindy effect, and suggests they be used for project planning. ("the longer an engineering task remains unfinished, the longer it will probably…
on “Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)” ↗Manfred Schroeder's "Fractals, chaos, power laws" (1991) had a similar statistical distribution (Levy? or something else?) which reminded me very much of software. Basically, the longer something has been observed to remain uncompleted, the further…
on “Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)” ↗…advert version looks a bit different to your unscripted clip: "are you getting enough?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBc2dmUiHs [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RShAxvg5MJE [8] see Schroeder, Fractals, chaos, power laws : minutes from an infinite paradise (1999) for why.