Curves and Fractal Dimension

'I. Sets of Null Measure on the Line.- 1. Perfect Sets and Their Measure.- 1.1 Duality set-measure.- 1.2 Closed sets and contiguous intervals.- 1.3 Perfect sets.- 1.4 Binary trees and the power of perfect sets.- 1.5 Symmetrical perfect sets.- 1.6 Tree representation of perfect sets.- 1.7 Bibliographical notes.- 2. Covers and Dimension.- 2.1 What is a null measure?.- 2.2 Hierarchy of sets of null measure.- 2.3 Cantor-Minkowski measure.- 2.4 Space filling and the order of growth.- 2.5 Orders of growth and dimension.- 2.6 Equivalent definitions of the dimension.- 2.7 Examples of computing the dimension.- 2.8 Some properties of the dimension.- 2.9 Upper and lower dimensions.- 2.10 Bibliographical notes.- 3. Contiguous Intervals and Dimension.- 3.1 Borel's logarithmic rarefaction.- 3.2 Index of Besicovitch-Taylor.- 3.3 Equivalent orders of growth.- 3.4 The contiguous intervals and the fractal dimension.- 3.5 Algorithms to compute the dimension.- 3.6 Bibliographical notes.- II. Rectifiable Curves.- 4. What Is a Curve?.- 4.1 Some types of sets in the plane.- 4.2 Velocities, trajectories.- 4.3 The definition of a curve.- 4.4 Bibliographical notes.- 5. Polygonal Curves and Length.- 5.1 Rectifiability.- 5.2 Hausdorff distance.- 5.3 Polygonal approximations.- 5.4 The length of a curve.- 5.5 Two distinct notions.- 5.6 Measuring the length by compass.- 5.7 Bibliographical notes.- 6. Parameterized Curves, Support of a Measure.- 6.1 Parameterization by arc length.- 6.2 Image measure.- 6.3 Length by instantaneous velocity.- 6.4 The devil staircase.- 6.5 Length by the average of local velocity.- 6.6 Bibliographical notes.- 7. Local Geometry of Rectifiable Curves.- 7.1 Tangent, cone, convex hulls.- 7.2 Relations between local properties.- 7.3 Counterexamples.- 7.4 Tangent almost everywhere.- 7.5 Local length, almost everywhere.- 7.6 Rectifiability revisited.- 7.7 Bibliographical notes.- 8. Length, by Intersections with Straight Lines.- 8.1 Intersections, projections.- 8.2 The measure