Fractals, the geometric-mathematical patterns appearing throughout nature, are revealed in the shapes of continents, galaxies, snowflakes, and grains of sand. In this fascinating and seminal volume, renowned pioneering-mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot…

Mandelbrot is world famous for his creation of the new mathematics of fractal geometry. This book, the first volume in Mandelbrot’s collected works, or Selecta, brings together his original papers…