2000 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Fractals
verfasst von : Professor Tomasz Kapitaniak
Erschienen in: Chaos for Engineers
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Fractals, objects with noninteger dimension, may at first sight seem to be unlikely candidates for any practical applications. In this chapter we introduce basic examples and properties of fractal sets starting with a classical example of the Cantor set and introduce different definitions of its dimension. Later we discuss the application of the fractal concept to dynamics and show that it is very useful in the description of strange chaotic attractors.