Abstract
It is impossible to begin a book on fractals without first acknowledging the debt owed to Benoit Mandelbrot. Fractal surfaces, and the many other natural manifestations of fractal behavior (only a few of which will be described here), existed long before Mandelbrot described them, but his 1982 book The Fractal Geometry of Nature collected together many ideas in one place, brought them with the aid of striking graphics to a general audience, and placed the made-up word “fractal” firmly in the modern vocabulary. His popularization of the concepts of fractal geometry has spurred many other workers to explore various aspects of this newly revealed subject.
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Russ, J.C. (1994). Introduction. In: Fractal Surfaces. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2578-7_1
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