Eric Baird (1)

I'm not surprised there are very few reviews of this as I understood almost none of it - but that's what I like in this sort of book. My partner picked it up as a present for me in a charity shop and I spent some very pleasant times just reading through the section headings, although having now read it cover to cover I'm not sure why I found 'Arbitrary suspension of the Equivalence Princlple' or 'Attempts to eliminate the "dark star" explanation' so enthralling. I liked the name of Acoustic Metrics but after looking it up on the internet I am no wiser. Nonetheless I have enjoyed it a lot.… (mer)

This is a visual (rather than a purely mathematical) guide to the world of fractals. You won’t find many equations or algorithms but you will encounter hundreds of pictures, most of them stunning – the few that aren’t turn out to be thumbnails giving constructional details, so it’s all good stuff.

This book would find a very happy home on the shelf of an advanced mathematics student who already has the dry mathematical theory texts but who is looking for a visual feast for the eyes, or indeed anyone who has a passing interest in fractal design.… (mer)