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Summary: The most intelligent and usefull book on fractals
Comment: I really enjoyed the author's style. It is not a typical mathematical book. So if you are into strict formal mathematics this is not for you. The author has deep understanding of fractals and he is an expert in Iterated Function Systems (IFS). The shadow theorem is one of the biggest hits on this book.
What I particularly like from this book is the illustrations. They let you understand fractals intuitively. It is definitely an ideal book for engineers. Try also his other more advanced book SuperFractals
The only part of the book that is not very well developed is chaos, although the "chaotic dance" presented on the book is good starting point

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Summary: A below average text book
Comment:
Barnsley's book has a shortcoming common to many math text books -- it's poorly written. Barnsely's writing style is superfluous and rambling. What I learned from this book was in spite of Barnsley's writing, not because of it.

Furthermore, the book's illustrations are substandard. There are over five different fonts used in illustrations (including hand written text). This leads to confusion when you're unsure if the text in Barnsley's illustrations is referring to Greek letters or the conventional alphabet. Another shortcoming is that Barnsley intermingles end of chapter exercises with new concepts. You may have problems 1.1 to 1.5 reviewing what you've already learned, and then problem 1.6 introduces completely new material. This is a problem throughout the book, as important concepts are introduced in exercises or otherwise illogical locations.

On the positive side, solutions to most exercises are presented at the end of the book. Overall the book was useful, but learning the material was unnecessarily difficult due to the book's shortcomings.

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Summary: Sometimes annoying but instructive
Comment: Although instructive, this book is sometimes annoying to read. The author seems to be playing his cards very close to the vest and not telling us everything.

For instance, there is little or no instruction on how to implement the IFS attractors presented as a panacea for data compression. This seems to be proprietary to his company. It also seems that hands-on manipulation is crucial to the images' production, contrary to the author's claims.

If you can understand the mathematics you may find the book useful, as I did when writing my book Fractals in MUsic.

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Summary: A bad book for 7 th graders like me
Comment: this is a bad and very confusing book for a young student in, say... 7th grade, like me. The language is incomprehensible and there are no visual aids.

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Summary: Opinión general
Comment: HUmmm!! parece interesante este librito. Pero la verdad busco uno donde encuentre aplicaciones a la ingeniería.
Estos libros de teoría suelen ponerse aburridos al no tener sufuciente información sobre aplicaciones.
De todos modos apenas lo tenga en las manos y lo mire doy una opinión más seria de este.

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