Clouds are not spheres: a portrait of Benoit Mandelbrot, the founding father of fractal geometry

By:

Gordon, Nigel Lesmoir

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: World Scientific Europe 2018 New JerseyDescription: xx, 99 pISBN:

9781786344748

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DDC classification:

510.92 G6C5

Summary: The time is right, following Benoît 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 Benoît 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. https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0138

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Early Years
Caltech and to France Once More
The USA, France and IBM
The Birth of Fractal Geometry
The Mandelbrot Set
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
The Art of Fractals
Practical Fractals
In Retrospect
Benoit and Nigel
Awards and Publications

The time is right, following Benoît 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 Benoît 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.

https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0138

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