| | | | | | Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw | | | | | | | | | and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan | | | | | | | | | Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press, Inc. | | | | | | | | | Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 | | | | | | | | | Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press | | | | | | | | | All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. | | | | | | | | | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Liebovitch, Larry S. Fractals and chaos simplified for the life sciences / Larry S. Liebovitch. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-512024-8 (pbk.) 1. Medicine—Mathematics. 2. Biology—Mathematics. 3. Fractals. 4. Chaotic behavior in systems. 1. Title. R853.M3L54 1997 97 20864 570'. 1'51474—dc21 CIP | | | | | | | | | Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper | | | | |