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The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)

by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (Author)

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Hardcover: 468 pages
Publisher: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd (18 Nov 1982)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0716711869
ISBN-13: 978-0716711865
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 20.6 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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"...a blend of erudition (fascinating and sometimes obscure historical minutiae abound), popularization (mathematical rigor is relegated to appendices) and exposition (the reader need have little knowledge of the fields involved) ...and the illustrations include many superb examples of computer graphics that are works of art in their own right." Nature

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4.0 out of 5 stars Seminal and beautiful, 12 Nov 2002

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Beauty and mathematics are often perceived as distant concepts by most people. The mathematically gifted would always refute such idea by stating that it is precisely elegance what guides many mathematical endeavors. Mandelbrot made it possible for fractal images to jump from obscure labs to the general knowledge. Many people since regard mathematics somehow with a different perspective.

Although the book requires some basic knowledge of math it is not difficult to follow. The extensive illustrations make it enjoyable even as a coffee-table decorative object.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Provoking and thought provoking, 23 Jan 2009

By	Alun Williams "mathematician manqu�" (Peterborough,England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is really a collection of disparate, fascinating, and occasionally tendentious essays written over a long period by the man after whom the world's most famous fractal is named.

The book is beautifully illustrated throughout, and since it is now quite old, many of the illustrations are beginning to acquire a period charm. It is perhaps a book that will be most appreciated by the (very) intelligent general reader: it is not the best starting point if one actually wants to learn how to construct fractals or perform computations relating to them. However, readers who learns from this book what Mandelbrot is trying to teach, will learn to see many aspects of the world in a new way.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book started it all, 15 Jun 1998

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This book is by far the very root by which chaos and the interrelations with that of nature came into existance. Mandelbrot describes chaos and dynamical systems as applied in the real world, and how fractals do appear in nature. Mandelbrot gets an A+.

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