Publisher's Synopsis
This volume contains the proceedings of the first IFIP conference on fractals. The mathematical concept of fractal was coined by B.B. Mandelbrot in the early seventies to characterize objects with self-similar structures at all levels. Now the field of fractals is being subject to intensive research and an extensive growth of applications in many sciences. This first IFIP conference, intended as a start of periodic conferences on fractals, enables a productive cross fertilization of ideas among specialists in fractals and in information processing.;In addition to the volume's 44 colour illustrations, on page v is a rare view of fractals and the Portuguese architecture at the time of the navigators, produced by Master Lima de Freitas, a leading Portuguese artist and member of the conference organizing committee. The design illustrates the symbiosis of mathematics and human artifacts represented by the real world.
