These nine essays provide succinct yet mostly accessible summaries of research at the frontier in fractal mathematics as applied to medicine, biology, ecology, polymers, condensed matter physics, and surface science.
In these fields scaling concepts are particularly effective in quantifying and describing inherently complex phenomena. This second volume of a series highlighting applications of fractals in science continues the practice introduced in the first volume, Fractals and Disordered Systems (A. Bunde and S. Havlin, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991) of providing an introductory chapter by the editors, some background material and literature citations within each chapter, plus relevant cross-references to other chapters in this and the first volume of the series. Notation for the various fractal dimensions is consistent from chapter to chapter and also with that found in the first volume.