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Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension
by Mandelbrot, Benoit B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine copy; very light wear and rubbing to cloth at the spine corners; very faint discoloration at spine tail where there wa
- ISBN 10
- 0716704730
- ISBN 13
- 9780716704737
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977. Hardcover. Near fine copy; very light wear and rubbing to cloth at the spine corners; very faint discoloration at spine tail where there was once Dr. Glaser's personal library spine label; o/w cloth is clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; a well-cared-for copy.. Octavo in blue-black cloth with silver text and illustration; b&w illus.; 365 pp., 24 cm. In English; French title: Les objets fractals from the library of Nobel laureate Dr. Donald A. Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber; search keyword DGLSR for more collectible titles from the Glaser library; Contents: I. Introduction -- II. How long is the coast of Britain? -- III. Uses of nonconstrained chance -- IV. Fractal events and noises -- V. Fractal clusters of stellar matter -- VI. Turbulence, intermittency and curdling -- VII. Meteorites, moon craters and soap -- VIII. Uses of self constrained chance -- IX. Fractional Brownian facets of rivers, relief and turbulence -- X. Miscellany -- XI. Biographical and historical sketches -- XII. Mathematical lexicon & addenda.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85949
- Title
- Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension
- Author
- Mandelbrot, Benoit B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine copy; very light wear and rubbing to cloth at the spine corners; very faint discoloration at spine tail where there wa
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0716704730
- ISBN 13
- 9780716704737
- Publisher
- W.H. Freeman
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Geometry. Mathematical models. Stochastic processes. Fractals, Géométrie, Modèles mathématiques
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mathematics;
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