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References

  1. The Computational Beauty of Nature, by Gary William Flake.
    See also the books homepage at http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/home.html
  2. Some of the figures (those with a copyright notice in smallprint in the figure caption) used in this chapter were taken from the website of Ref.[1] while some other figures used in the lectures were taken from Refs[3,4].
  3. Fractals and Chaos, by P.A. Addison.
  4. Fractals in the Physical Sciences, by H. Takayasu.
  5. Some frontier interdisciplinary research in fractals that might have solved a long-standing mystery of nature is reported in
    http://www.sciam.com/explorations/1999/061499power and also
    http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bulletins/bulletin-summer97/feature.html
  6. Some technological applications of fractals are reported in

    http://www.sciam.com/1999/0799issue/0799techbus3.html
  7. Some random walk simulations on the web are
    (a) http://stp.clarku.edu/simulations/one-dimensional-walk.html
    (b) http://math.furman.edu/ dcs/java/rw.html
  8. A DLA simulation is at http://apricot.ap.polyu.edu.hk/ lam/dla/dla.html
  9. Mandelbrots article on multifractals in finance is in Scientific American Feb 1999, pg.73. You can read some commentaries on it at
    http://www.sciam.com/1999/0699issue/0699letters.html


Rajesh Parwani 2002-01-03