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Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Nonnenmacher, Theo F.
Losa, Gabriele A.
Weibel, Ewald R.

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Series: Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction

General GardeningGeneral MathematicsGeneral Science

ISBN10: 3764329890
ISBN13: 9783764329891
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Feb 1 1994
Pages: 397
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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.

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