Mandelbrot, Benoit B.

The fractal geometry of nature / Benoit B. Mandelbrot.. - San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, c1982. - 460 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + hbk.

Rev. ed. of: Fractals. c1977.

Bibliography: p. [425]-443. - Includes index.

Introduction -- Three classsic fractals tamed -- Galaxies and eddies -- Scaling fractals -- Nonscaling fractals -- Self mapping fractals -- Randomness -- Stratified random fractals -- Fractional brown fractals -- Random tremas texture -- Miscellany -- Of men and ideas.

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Geometry.
Mathematical models
Stochastic processes
Fractals.

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