Re: Definition of a fractal

From: G. A. Edgar (edgar_at_math.ohio-state.edu.invalid)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:38:42 -0400

>
> Fractal is a word coined by Dr. Mandelbrot in his book.
> He was and still is very positive about what it defined:
> Curves that have fractional dimensional measure.
> That is pretty much the "formal" definition.

Look in the second printing of THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY
OF NATURE (page 458-9) to see that Mandelbrot now regrets
the definition he gave at first, and prefers to leave
the term "fractal" without a pedantic definition. 

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