August 23, 2008
This is a highly personal list of Top 10 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY all-time faves -
Assignment in Eternity by Robert Heinlein
The War Against the Rull by A.E. Van Vogt
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Holy Fire by [...]
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August 21, 2008
Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot is an internationally acknowledged and recognized mathematician. He originated the field of fractal geometry, and showed how fractals occur in many diverse places, both in nature and mathematics.
Dr. Mandebrot published The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982), recognized by The American Scientist as one of the most influential science books of the 20th [...]
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