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Clouds are not spheres : a portrait of Benoît Mandelbrot, the founding father of fractal geometry / Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, BECTU, the Media and Entertainment Union, UK.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lesmoir-Gordon, Nigel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
- Mathematicians--France--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- France.
- Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Fractals.
- Geometry.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 99 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New Jersey ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd., [2018]
- Contents:
- The early years
- Caltech and to France again
- The USA, France, and IBM
- The birth of fractal geometry
- The Mandelbrot set
- The fractal geometry of nature
- The art of fractals : painting, architecture, and music
- Practical fractals
- In retrospect
- Benoit and Nigel
- Awards and publications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781786344748
- 1786344742
- OCLC:
- 1005895260
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