Integral, probability, and fractal measures (Q4375489)

This book is a continuation of the author's ``Measure, topology, and fractal geometry'' (1990; Zbl 0727.28003) with some advanced topics. The author tries to avoid to cover the material of the recent books of \textit{P. Mattila} [``Geometry of sets and measures in Euclidean spaces. Fractals and rectifiability'' (1995; Zbl 0819.28004)] and \textit{P. R. Massopoust} [``Fractal functions, fractal surfaces, and wavelets'' (1994; Zbl 0817.28004)]. The book is divided into 5 chapters. Each one has some optional sections for the reader. The first chapter is dedicated to fractal measures. The author remarks that he has barely mentioned the packing measures compared with Hausdorff measures in his earlier book (loc. cit.). Here he gives them a more prominent place. A lot of exercises are helpful for the reader. The book includes also two chapters on integrals, one for pure theory and one with emphasis on fractals. Unfortunately, the application of this tool is already very well described in Mattila's book for pure geometric measure theory. The application of integrals (as described here) to fractal measure, self-affine graph and graph self-similar measure is rather unconvincing. In the final two chapters, the author considers the application of probability theory in some fractal examples. Meantime, the textbook of \textit{K. Falconer} [``Techniques in fractal geometry'' (1997; Zbl 0869.28003)] also gives a more closer account of probabilistic methods in fractal geometry.