Fractales y Caos

Fractales y Caos. La aventura de la complejidad
Vicent J. Martínez, Fernando J. Ballesteros and Silvestre Paredes
Guadalmazán
1st edition: 2017
Format: Paperback with flaps, 15 x 24 cm
160 pages
ISBN: 978-84-94608-55-1
Language: Spanish

Galileo Galilei, in his work The essayer, said that the book of nature was written in mathematical language. Effectively from the times of Archimedes, Pythagoras and Euclid to our days, mathematics has been used with great success when describing the phenomena of nature, but there are many aspects of it that have roughness, irregularities and even chaotic forms that the classical geometry can not adequately describe. Fractals and chaos theory have helped to reveal in a simple way complex structures of nature that seemed to escape the language of traditional mathematics, from the folding of the human genome to the distribution of galaxies, from cardiac rhythms to the strange movement of small satellites in the Solar System.