Fractals in Biology and Medicine
Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author: Gabriele A. Losa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3764374128

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This volume is number four in a series of proceedings volumes from the International Symposia on Fractals in Biology and Medicine in Ascona, Switzerland which have been inspired by the work of Benoît Mandelbrot seeking to extend the concepts towards the life sciences. It highlights the potential that fractal geometry offers for elucidating and explaining the complex make-up of cells, tissues and biological organisms either in normal or in pathological conditions.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine
Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author: Gabriele A. Losa

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 3034881193

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In March 2000 leading scientists gathered at the Centro Seminariale Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, for the Third International Symposium on "Fractals 2000 in Biology and Medicine". This interdisciplinary conference provided stimulating contributions from the very topical field Fractals in Biology and Medicine. This volume highlights the growing power and efficacy of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyze living phenomena and complex shapes.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine
Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author: Theo F. Nonnenmacher

Publisher: Birkhauser

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13:

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This text explores the potential of fractal geometry for describing and understanding biological organisms, their development and growth, as well as their structural design and functional properties. It extends these notions to assess changes associated with disease. This text explores the potential of fractal geometry for describing and understanding biological organisms, their development and growth as well as their structural design and functional properties. It extends these notions to assess changes associated with disease in the hope of contributing to the understanding of pathogenetic processes in medicine. This book is a presentation of the importance of the new concept of fractal geometry for biological and medical sciences. It collates extended papers based on invited lectures and free communications presented at a symposium in Ascona, Switzerland, attended by leading scientists in this field, among them the originator of fractal geometry, Benoat Mandelbrot. "Fractals in Biology and Medicine" begins by asking how the theoretical construct of fractal geometry can be applied to biomedical sciences, and then addresses the role of fractals in the design and morphogenesis of biological organisms, as well as in molecular and cell biology.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine
Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author: G. Losa

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 1998-04-15

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9783764357153

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"Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Volume 2" explores the potential of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyse natural shapes. The volume devotes special emphasis to the complex field of human tumours.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine
Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author: G. Losa

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 1998-04-15

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9783764357153

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"Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Volume 2" explores the potential of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyse natural shapes. The volume devotes special emphasis to the complex field of human tumours.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine
Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author: G. Losa

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2013-03-11

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 3034889364

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"Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Volume 2" explores the potential of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyse natural shapes. The volume devotes special emphasis to the complex field of human tumours.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine
Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author: Theo F. Nonnenmacher

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 3034885016

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"Fractals in Biology and Medicine" explores the potential of fractal geometry for describing and understanding biological organisms, their development and growth as well as their structural design and functional properties. It extends these notions to assess changes associated with disease in the hope to contribute to the understanding of pathogenetic processes in medicine. The book is the first comprehensive presentation of the importance of the new concept of fractal geometry for biological and medical sciences. It collates in a logical sequence extended papers based on invited lectures and free communications presented at a symposium in Ascona, Switzerland, attended by leading scientists in this field, among them the originator of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot. "Fractals in Biology and Medicine" begins by asking how the theoretical construct of fractal geometry can be applied to biomedical sciences and then addresses the role of fractals in the design and morphogenesis of biological organisms as well as in molecular and cell biology. The consideration of fractal structure in understanding metabolic functions and pathological changes is a particularly promising avenue for future research.

Fractals in Science
Fractals in Science

Author: Armin Bunde

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-21

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 3642779530

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A deeply detailed discussion of fractals in biology, heterogeneous chemistry, polymers, and the earth sciences. Beginning with a general introduction to fractal geometry it continues with eight chapters on self-organized criticality, rough surfaces and interfaces, random walks, chemical reactions, and fractals in chemisty, biology, and medicine. A special chapter entitled "Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity" presents computer demonstrations of fractal models: 14 programs are included on a 3 1/2" MS-DOS diskette which run on any PC with at least 1 MB RAM and a EGA or VGA graphics card, 16 colors.

Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine
Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine

Author: Bruce J. West

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9814417793

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This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences. Mathematical concepts are introduced using biomedical data sets and the phenomena being explained take precedence over the mathematics. In this new edition what has withstood the test of time has been updated and modernized; speculations that were not borne out have been expunged and the breakthroughs that have occurred in the intervening years are emphasized. The book provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a new chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine.

Fractal Geometry in Biological Systems
Fractal Geometry in Biological Systems

Author: Philip M. Iannaccone

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1996-07-25

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780849376368

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Fractal Geometry in Biological Systems was written by the leading experts in the field of mathematics and the biological sciences together. It is intended to inform researchers in the bringing about the fundamental nature of fractals and their widespread appearance in biological systems. The chapters explain how the presence of fractal geometry can be used in an analytical way to predict outcomes in systems, to generate hypotheses, and to help design experiments. The authors make the mathematics accessible to a wide audience and do not assume prior experience in this area.