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We present a general introduction to the world of fractals. The attention is mainly devoted to stress how fractals do indeed appear in the real world and to find quantitative methods for characterizing their properties. The idea of multifractality is also introduced and it is presented in more details within the framework of the percolation problem.
This chapter is based on the lectures presented by L.P. Kadanoff (section II) and the author (section III) at the School on Disorder and Mixing (Cargèse, june 1987).
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de Arcangelis, L. (1988). Fractals and Multifractals in Physics. In: Guyon, E., Nadal, JP., Pomeau, Y. (eds) Disorder and Mixing. NATO ASI Series, vol 152. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2825-1_3
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