Fractal Frontiers

Historically, science has developed by reducing complex situations to simple ones, analyzing the components and synthesizing the original situation. While this "reductionist" approach has been extremely successful, there are phenomena of such complexity that one cannot simplify them without eliminating the problems in a wide variety of fields. This is in part due to the development of fractal geometry. Fractal geometry provides the mathematical tools for handling complexity. This volume offers collection of papers that deal with the application of fractals in both traditional scientific disciplines and in applied fields. It shows the advance of understanding of complex phenomena across a spectrum of disciplines. While these diverse fields work on very different problems, fractals provide a unifying formalism for approaching these problems.