Clouds Are Not Spheres: A Portrait of Benoit Mandelbrot, the Founding Father of Fractal Geometry

by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

'The book is well-illustrated, earlier chapters with monochrome portraits of Mandelbrot, his family and those who influenced him, and later ones with striking colour pictures not only of the Mandelbrot set and other computer generated fractals, but also of real (TM) fractals including cloud formations and rural and mountain scenes ... This celebration of Mandelbrot (TM)s scientific life is largely based on interviews that the author had with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786344742
• ISBN13: 9781786344748
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"