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020			_a9781786344748
082			_a510.92 LES-N
100			_aLesmoir-Gordon, Nigel
245			_aClouds are not spheres : _ba portrait of Benoit Mandelbrot / _cNigel Lesmoir-Gordon
260			_aUSA _bWorld Scientific Publications _c2018
300			_a99 p.
365			_aUSD _b58.00.
500			_aThe 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.
650			_aFractals
650			_aMathematicians
650			_aGeometry
650			_aMandelbrot, Benoit B