From: John Conover <john@email.johncon.com>
Subject: The Mathematical Structure of Terrorism
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:16:50 -0700
A bit off topic, but some work done at Los Alamos National Laboratory seems to indicate that the patterns in wars and terrorism have fractal characteristics. (Specifically, a fractal power law spectrum, i.e., the Fourier convolution has an envelope of -0.5, or so, meaning the characteristics are very nearly the same as a fractional Brownian motion fractal.) There is a link at the bottom to the original publication at LANL. Kind of interesting reading. John http://www.physorg.com/news67524254.html -- John Conover, john@email.johncon.com, http://www.johncon.com/