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From: scott@cornell.UUCP (Scott Smith)
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Subject: Re: Wanted Fractal Book
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 13:48:59 EST
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For those who are willing to spend the money, the recent edition of
"The Fractal Geometry of Nature" may be ordered directly from the publisher.

The price is $32.50 plus $1.50 postage (CA, NY, UT add sales tax too).
Send the check (US dollars for Canadians) to:
	W. H. Freeman and Company
	4419 West 1980 South
	Salt Lake City, UT   84104

After trying for a few weeks to get one of the three copies the Cornell
libraries have, I gave up and bought the book at the local bookstore.
Little mathematical background is needed to get the main ideas, and from
what I have read so far, the book is quite readable.  Words cannot describe
the vast assortment of illustrations.  The guy is pretty heady
and doesn't hide it. My favorite line found thus far is in the caption to
plate 271:
(the plate is some sequences of a film made a few years back, in 1976)
..."in 1981, the film looks ridiculously primitive, but it may acquire
antiquitarian value."
Who knows, maybe he is right.

-scott smith         (arpa: scott@cornell; usenet:..decvax!cornell!scott)