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Clouds Are Not Spheres: A Portrait Of Benoit Mandelbrot, The Founding Father Of Fractal Geometry (Hardcover)
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Clouds Are Not Spheres: A Portrait Of Benoit Mandelbrot, The Founding Father Of Fractal Geometry (Hardcover)
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'The book is well-illustrated, earlier chapters with monochrome
portraits of Mandelbrot, his family and those who influenced him,
and later ones with striking colour pictures not only of the
Mandelbrot set and other computer generated fractals, but also of
aEURO~realaEURO (TM) fractals including cloud formations and rural
and mountain scenes ... This celebration of MandelbrotaEURO (TM)s
scientific life is largely based on interviews that the author had
with him when making films on his work ... A challenge for
historians of mathematics and science in coming years will be to
produce a more broadly contextual and rounded account of the advent
of fractals.'London Math SocietyThe time is right, following Benoit
Mandelbrot's death in 2010, to publish this landmark book about the
life and work of this maverick math genius.This compact book
celebrates the life and achievements of Benoit Mandelbrot with the
ideas of fractals presented in a way that can be understood by the
interested lay-person. Mathematics is largely avoided. Instead,
Mandelbrot's ideas and insights are described using a combination
of intuition and pictures. The early part of the book is largely
biographical, but it portrays well how Mandelbrot's life and ideas
developed and led to the fractal notions that are surveyed in the
latter parts of the book.
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