‘How Long is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension,’ pp. 636-638 in: Science, New Series, Vol. 56, No. 3775, May 5, 1967. [With:] RICHARDSON, Lewis Fry. ‘The problem of contiguity: An appendix to Statistics of Deadly Quarrels,’ pp. 139-187 in: General Systems: Yearbook of the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory. Ann Arbor, MI: The Society, 1961.
Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1967. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of Mandelbrot’s first paper on fractals (a term he coined in 1975). “Today Mandelbrot’s paper on the coast of Britain is famous in the history of mathematics” (historyofscience.com). “Mandelbrot had come across..... More
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