Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-257) and indexes.
Introduction -- The fractal dimension -- The cluster fractal dimension -- Viscous fingering in porous media -- Cantor sets -- Multifractal measures -- Percolation -- Fractal records in time -- Random walks and fractals -- Self-similarity and self-affinity -- Wave-height statistics -- The perimeter-area relation -- Fractal surfaces -- Observations of fractal surfaces.