Fractals in Physics: Essays in Honour of Benoit B Mandelbrot : Proceedings of the International Conference Honouring Benoit B Mandelbrot on His 65th [Paperback]

Amnon Aharony (Author), Jens Feder (Editor)

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• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: North-Holland (June 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 044488646X
• ISBN-13: 978-0444886460
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,720,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A case of bad editing?, March 22, 2009

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R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fractals in Physics: Essays in Honour of Benoit B Mandelbrot : Proceedings of the International Conference Honouring Benoit B Mandelbrot on His 65th (Paperback)

My impression from reading this book is that the articles were so clipped down that in most cases it would be impossible from the text to duplicate many of the diagrams.

Since interest in fractals has centered around the graphics

in the popular mind, I blame the major editor for truncated articles by many of these great authors so that the articles are more like summaries

than true articles.

In the past when faced with such articles, I have had to search the references in order to figure out the substance of the article.

Books like this can do more harm to science than good.