Definition of Fractal geometry

1. Noun. (mathematics) the geometry of fractals. "Benoit Mandelbrot pioneered fractal geometry"

Category relationships: Math, Mathematics, Maths
Generic synonyms: Geometry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fractal Geometry

fracid
fracing
fracked
fracker
frackers
frackings
fracks
fract
fractal
fractal antenna
fractal antennas
fractal dimension
fractal dimensions
fractal geometry (current term)
fractal response time
fractal response times
fractalated
fractalisation
fractality
fractalization
fractalizations
fractalize
fractalized
fractalizes
fractalizing
fractalkine
fractally
fractals

Literary usage of Fractal geometry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Profiting from Chaos: Using Chaos Theory for Market Timing, Stock Selection by Tonis Vaga (1994)
"Michael Barnsley characterizes fractal geometry as an extension of classical geometry. The latter provides “a first approximation” to the structure of ..."

2. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"fractal geometry Geometry evolved as the reason of reason. It was the universal ideal that God had encoded ... Mandelbrot's fractal geometry overcomes the ..."

3. Gaia Matrix: Arkhom & the Geometries of Destiny in the North American Landscape by Peter William Champoux, William Stuart Buehler (1999)
"fractal geometry is a relatively new study of mathematics. As noted earlier, a typical example of fractal geometry is evident in the leaf and stem structure ..."

4. Proceedings of the Berkeley-Ames Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Control by Louis R. Hunt, Clyde Martin (1984)
"Mandelbrot, BB, The fractal geometry of Nature, WH Freeman, San Francisco, 1982. 14. Bridgeman, PW, Dimensional Analysis, Yale University Press. ..."

5. Researching Mathematics Education in South Africa: Perspectives, Practices by Renuka Vithal, Jill Adler, Christine Keitel (2005)
"... basketry relates the patterns involved to fractal geometry and is an example of how ethnomathematics goes beyond basic mathematics. ..."

6. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"[31] Mandelbrot, BB, The fractal geometry of Nature, WH Freeman, New York, 1983. [32] McQueen, DM, Peskin, CS and Yellin, EL, Fluid Dynamics of the Mitral ..."

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