TY - BOOK AU - Feldman,David P. TI - Chaos and fractals: an elementary introduction SN - 9780199566433 U1 - 514.742 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Fractals KW - Chaotic behavior in systems N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-402) and index; I: Introducing Discrete Dynamical Systems; II: Chaos; III: Fractals; IV: Julia Sets and the Mandelbrot Set; V: Higher Dimension System; VI: Conclusion N2 - For students with a background in elementary algebra, this text provides a vivid introduction to the key phenomena and ideas of chaos and fractals, including the butterfly effect, strange attractors, fractal dimensions, Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set, power laws, and cellular automata ER -