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Discovery of Cosmic Fractals (2002)

by Yurij Baryshev, Pekka Teerikorpi

Other authors: Benoit Mandelbrot (Foreword)

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In a simple manner, explains the frontiers of astronomy, how fractals appear in cosmic physics, offers a personal view of the history of the idea of self-similarity and of cosmological principles and presents the debate which illustrates how new concepts and deeper observations reveal unexpected aspects of Nature.… (more)
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Good account of astronomy and cosmology, providing a platform for the authors' agendas of claiming that galaxies are arranged in a fractal structure (thus challenging the usual Cosmological Principle) and lauding the accomplishments of little-known Scandinavian astronomers.
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Foreword by Benoit Mandelbrot
The authors have asked me to present to the reader this most attractive and wide-ranging book of theirs. But this book hardly needs being presented! It is so well-informed of the history of its subject that it stands by itself and deserves to be appreciated from at least two viewpoints. Firstly, as the second word in the title suggests, it introduces to a very wide potential readership many facts and theories of cosmology. The style is precise but highly personal, a relief after too many introductions beholden to a stylistic formula. Secondly, as the remainder of the title suggests, this book has the unusual distinction of being a notable contribution to the history of ideas.
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The 20th century was a great time for the science of the Universe – it was an era of true voyages of discovery, when both the covert shadows of the microworld and the breath-taking depths of the galaxy universe were penetrated. In the new realm of galaxies three totally unexpected cosmic phenomena were found: the cosmological redshift, the cosmic background radiation, and the large scale structures in the universe. These are cornerstones of modern cosmology.
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In a simple manner, explains the frontiers of astronomy, how fractals appear in cosmic physics, offers a personal view of the history of the idea of self-similarity and of cosmological principles and presents the debate which illustrates how new concepts and deeper observations reveal unexpected aspects of Nature.

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