Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension
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Jump to navigationJump to searchMandelbrot, Benoít. Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension. San Francisco: Freeman, 1977.
Cited by Douglas Hofstadter as "a picture book of sophisticated contemporary research ideas in mathematics," in the Bibliography to Gödel, Escher, Bach, q.v..[1] Mendelbrot and his theory of "roughness" — and more specifically fractals and "the Mandelbrot set" — became increasingly important as the 20th c. moved into the 21at.[2]
