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The Fractal Geometry of Nature.
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...a blend of erudition (fascinating and sometimes obscure historical minutiae abound), popularization (mathematical rigor is relegated to appendices) and exposition (the reader need have little knowledge of the fields involved) ...and the illustrations include many superb examples of computer graphics that are works of art in their own right. Nature
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sparrow, C., & Mandelbrot, B.
- Venue
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1984
- Volume
- 147
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 616
- ISSN
- 0035-9238 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2800860906
- Cited by
- 14,546
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 272.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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