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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
- Used
- very good
- hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0716711869
- ISBN 13
- 9780716711865
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About This Item
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1983. Hardcover. Third printing. Updated and Augmented Edition of Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension (1977). Burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt stamped fractal design to cover, fractal decorated endpapers. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Original college bookstore price stamped to FFEP, otherwise interior appears unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Prior owner's name inked to foreedge and blacked. Light edgewear to jacket, half-inch tear to bottom edge, chipping to spine tail. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 4to. 8.25 x 9.25 x 1.2 inches. 468 pages. Illustrated with color plates and b/w reproductions. The seminal work on fractals.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- RWARE0000003184
- Title
- The Fractal Geometry of Nature
- Author
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- Updated and Augmented
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0716711869
- ISBN 13
- 9780716711865
- Publisher
- W. H. Freeman and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 1983
- Keywords
- math, mathematics, science, fractals, geometrical, geometry, models, stochastic processes, shapes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science & Technology;
- Size
- 4to
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- jacket
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- spine
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- tail
- The heel of the spine.
- ffep
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- tight
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- gilt
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