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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.
In the comic thriller 'Nothing and Everywhere' John Smith, an
unpublished and regrettably named novelist, has his computer stolen
and with it the only copy of his latest novel. Despite fear of his
guru's disapproval, John mysteriously acquires two handguns, a load
of cash and a crack team to reclaim his work. Together with Susie
Bellavista, a beautiful and enigmatic maths genius, Biro, a
Hungarian ex-RAF Regiment sergeant and March Klossowski, one-time
activist and fellow-failed writer, John explores the power and
wonder of mathematics in an attempt to solve an imponderable, real
life mystery. Where will this whirlwind adventure lead? Back up
your files and enjoy the ride
Fractals are the geometry of the natural world. They're about the
broken, wrinkled, wiggly world- the uneven shapes of nature, unlike
the idealised forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals
everywhere; indeed, we are fractals ourselves. Fractal geometry is
an extension of classical geometry which can make precise models of
physical structures, from ferns to galaxies. It can describe the
shape of a cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house.
Introducing Fractals traces the historical development of this
mathematical discipline, explores its descriptive powers in the
natural world, and then looks at the applications and the
implications of the discoveries it has made. As John Archibald
Wheeler, protege of Niels Bohr, friend of Albert Einstein and
mentor of Richard Feynman has said, 'No one will be considered
scientifically literate tomorrow, who is not familiar with
fractals.'
TIBOR JANUARY: A BIOGRAPHY TIBOR VASARHELYI was born in 1954 in
Budapest. Early on in his life he developed a passion for drumming
and later on played in several bands. After his father's death at
the age of 12, he and his mother, Roza, emigrated to Israel. He
served his three years in the army in the Military Police as a
prison guard, throughout which his drumming continued but to make
progress he decided to move to the UK. His efforts to succeed in
the music business did not bear fruit and he learned to fly, later
became an instructor and eventually qualified as a commercial
airline pilot fulfilling this second dream and ending up as a
Captain with Maersk Air and later on with bmibaby. He is married to
Libby and they have a son called Jody. He changed his name to
January. His life has been an extraordinary journey - exciting,
rich and varied.
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