Mandelbrot, Benoit B.

The fractal geometry of nature / Benoit B. Mandelbrot. - San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, c1982. - 460 p., [1] leaf of plates :

Includes index.

1.Introduction--
2.Three classic fractals tamed --
3.Galaxies and eddies--
4.Scaling fractals--
5.Nonscaling fractals--
6.Self mapping fractals--
7.Randomness--
8.Stratified random fractals --
9.Fractional brown fractals--
10.Random tremas : the book in color--
11.Miscellany--
12.Of men and ideas.


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Geometry.
Mathematical models.
Stochastic processes.
Fractals.

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