Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective

Richard F. Casten; Steven Moszkowski

doi:10.1063/1.2810324

$FINDING SELF-SIMILARITY IN A WORLD OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise Manfred Schroeder Freeman, New York, 1991. 429pp. $32.95 he ISBN 0-7167-2136-8 Reviewed by Kurt Wiesenfeld There is a trend among physicists when confronted with a complex phenomenon to describe it as a selfconsistent whole, rather than a collection of neatly independentâand ultimately simpleâpieces. While there is no consensus on the best way to quantify complexity in general, we think of fractals as representative of spatial complexity and chaos as the hallmark of temporal complexity. Scientists have pursued these subjects diligently in recent years, and the ideas that have emerged carry a great deal of allure and power. The subject has also generated more than its share of buzzwords and a library's worth of coffee-table picture books. In the preface to his latest book, Manfred Schroeder writes that "the unifying concept underlying fractals, chaos and power laws is self-similarity." Complex systems then are not random aggregates but have an internal order in which pieces of the systems are, roughly speaking, miniature copies of the whole. Schroeder draws together an impressively diverse set of examples to show us that nature is absolutely full$

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Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective

Casten, Richard F.; Moszkowski, Steven

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