Fractal Time
Author : Susie Vrobel
Publisher : Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : Fractals
ISBN : 9780966132410
Author : Susie Vrobel
Publisher : Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : Fractals
ISBN : 9780966132410
Author : Gregg Braden
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1401925057
In this compelling exploration of life, Gregg Braden merges the modern discoveries of nature’s patterns (fractals) with the ancient view of a cyclic universe. The result is a powerful model of time—fractal time—and a realistic window into what we can expect for the mysterious year 2012 . . . and beyond. Applying fractal time to the history of the world and life, he proposes that everything from the war and peace between nations to the patterns of human relationships mirror the returning cycles of our past. As each cycle repeats, it carries a more powerful, amplified version of itself. The key: If you know where to look in the past,you know what to expect when the same conditions return in the present and future. For the first time in print, the Time Code Calculator gives you the toolto do just that! Through easy-to-understand science and step-by-step instructions, discover for yourself: • How the conditions for 2012 have occurred in the past, and what we can expect when they repeat! • The “hot dates” that hold the greatest threats of war and greatest opportunities for peace, as well as economic cycles such as the stockmarket collapse of 2008! • How Earth’s location in space triggers cycles of spiritual growth for humans! • Your personal Time Codes for the key events of business, relationships, and change in your life! • How each cycle carries a window of opportunity—a choice point—that allows us to select a new outcome for the returning pattern! • What the 1999 ice cores from Antarctica reveal about past cycles of climate, global warming, Earth’s protective magnetic fields, and what these things mean for us today!
Author : Nezameddin Faghih
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3031381882
This edited volume discusses time and fractal phenomena in economics, entrepreneurship, and management. Chapters embrace a wide spectrum of topics, such as time series analysis of entrepreneurial orientation, theoretical research on the effectiveness of time management in dynamics of employee-organization relationship, the degradation of goals over time and how ambiguity and managerial cognition shape distributions of project time and cost, and fractal characteristics in energy markets and organizations. Revealing emerging aspects of time and fractals across disciplines, this volume demonstrates their significance in advancing economics, entrepreneurship, and management research. As such, this text will be useful for academics, researchers, management professionals and policy makers.
Author : Kerri I Welch
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781734576207
This book will challenge how you think about time. Physics describes time as spatialized, static, and reversible, while we experience time as textured, flowing, and unidirectional. No model is better suited to capture time's quantitative and qualitative aspects than the cyclicity, creativity, and infinite depths of fractals.
Author : Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1475747403
For almost ten years chaos and fractals have been enveloping many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in their power, creativity and expanse. Reaching far beyond the traditional bounds of mathematics and science to the realms of popular culture, they have captured the attention and enthusiasm of a worldwide audience. The fourteen chapters of the book cover the central ideas and concepts, as well as many related topics including, the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Cellular Automata, L-Systems, Percolation and Strange Attractors, and each closes with the computer code for a central experiment. In the two appendices, Yuval Fisher discusses the details and ideas of fractal image compression, while Carl J.G. Evertsz and Benoit Mandelbrot introduce the foundations and implications of multifractals.
Author : Benoit Mandelbrot
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781648370410
Written in a style that is accessible to a wide audience, The Fractal Geometry of Nature inspired popular interest in this emerging field. Mandelbrot's unique style, and rich illustrations will inspire readers of all backgrounds.
Author : Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1986-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540158516
Now approaching its tenth year, this hugely successful book presents an unusual attempt to publicise the field of Complex Dynamics. The text was originally conceived as a supplemented catalogue to the exhibition "Frontiers of Chaos", seen in Europe and the United States, and describes the context and meaning of these fascinating images. A total of 184 illustrations - including 88 full-colour pictures of Julia sets - are suggestive of a coffee-table book. However, the invited contributions which round off the book lend the text the required formality. Benoit Mandelbrot gives a very personal account, in his idiosyncratic self-centred style, of his discovery of the fractals named after him and Adrien Douady explains the solved and unsolved problems relating to this amusingly complex set.
Author : Jens Feder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1489921249
This lovely little book will take off and fly on its own power, but the author has asked me to write a few words, and one should not say no to a friend. Specific topics in fractal geometry and its applications have already benefited from several excellent surveys of moderate length, and gossip and preliminary drafts tell us that we shall soon see several monographic treatments of broader topics. For the teacher, however, these surveys and monographs are not enough, and an urgent need for more helpful books has been widely recognized. To write such a book is no easy task, but Jens Feder meets the challenge head on. His approach combines the old Viking's willingness to attack many difficulties at the same time, and the modern Norwegian's ability to achieve fine balance between diverging needs. lowe him special gratitude for presenting the main facts about R/ S analysis of long-run dependence; now a wide scientific public will have access to a large group of papers of mine that had until this day remained fairly confidential. Last but not least, we are all grateful to Jens for not having allowed undue personal modesty to deprive us of accounts of his own group's varied and excellent work. He did not attempt to say everything, but what he said is just fine. Benoit B. Mandelbrot Physics Department, IBM Thomas J.
Author : C.A. Pickover
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 1998-08-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0080528864
These days computer-generated fractal patterns are everywhere, from squiggly designs on computer art posters to illustrations in the most serious of physics journals. Interest continues to grow among scientists and, rather surprisingly, artists and designers. This book provides visual demonstrations of complicated and beautiful structures that can arise in systems, based on simple rules. It also presents papers on seemingly paradoxical combinations of randomness and structure in systems of mathematical, physical, biological, electrical, chemical, and artistic interest. Topics include: iteration, cellular automata, bifurcation maps, fractals, dynamical systems, patterns of nature created through simple rules, and aesthetic graphics drawn from the universe of mathematics and art.Chaos and Fractals is divided into six parts: Geometry and Nature; Attractors; Cellular Automata, Gaskets, and Koch Curves; Mandelbrot, Julia and Other Complex Maps; Iterated Function Systems; and Computer Art.Additionally, information on the latest practical applications of fractals and on the use of fractals in commercial products such as the antennas and reaction vessels is presented. In short, fractals are increasingly finding application in practical products where computer graphics and simulations are integral to the design process. Each of the six sections has an introduction by the editor including the latest research, references, and updates in the field. This book is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, a comprehensive index, and the many computer program examples encourage reader involvement.
Author : G. Cherbit
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1991-01-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
This text will be a valuable tool and reference work for all those interested in fractal forms and their properties. The past decade has seen an almost exponential amount of work done in the field of non-integral dimensions. Upon publication of Mandelbrot's Objets Fractals (1975), a great number of researchers understood the interest of fractals. Many tried, by means of the theory, to set up immediately useable tools, including the author, who opted for an experimental approach and developed instrumentation to explore the widest possible range in both time and space (time resolution of the laser spectroscopy of biomolecules). In this spirit, these expert researchers organized monthly ``Hausdorff seminars on the notion of non-integral dimension and its applications'' to tackle the problems confronting practical scientists. This work captures, with many illustrative examples, the main themes of each session.