Introducing Fractals: A Graphic Guide

Author: Ralph Gordon; Will Rood; Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon; Ralph Edney (Illustrator)

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Price : $16.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781848310872
Publisher : Icon Books, Limited
Imprint : Icon Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.159
Publication date : August 2009
Dimensions : 167mm X 117mm
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Author : Ralph Gordon; Will Rood; Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon; Ralph Edney (Illustrator)
Series : Introducing... Ser.
Bind : Paperback
Edition : Revised edition
Illustrator : Ralph Edney
Language : English
Dewey classification : 514.742
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Pages : 176
BIC subject : Geometry; Fractals
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From Zeno to Mandelbrot: explore this new language with which you can describe the shape of cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house.

Author description

Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon is a producer of television documentaries. Will Rood studied mathematics at Cambridge University. His fractal animations have graced many television documentaries and his artwork has featured on numerous magazines, posters and CD sleeves. Ralph Edney trained as a mathematician, and has worked as a teacher, journalist, illustrator and political cartoonist.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.