Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension

San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977. Octavo in blue-black cloth with silver text and illustration; b&w illus.; 365 pp., 24 cm . Near fine copy; very light wear and rubbing to cloth at the spine corners; very faint discoloration at spine tail where there was once Dr. Glaser's personal library spine label; o/w cloth is clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; a well-cared-for copy. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0716704730

In English; French title: Les objets fractals from the library of Nobel laureate Dr. Donald A. Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber; search keyword DGLSR for more collectible titles from the Glaser library; Contents: I. Introduction -- II. How long is the coast of Britain? -- III. Uses of nonconstrained chance -- IV. Fractal events and noises -- V. Fractal clusters of stellar matter -- VI. Turbulence, intermittency and curdling -- VII. Meteorites, moon craters and soap -- VIII. Uses of self constrained chance -- IX. Fractional Brownian facets of rivers, relief and turbulence -- X. Miscellany -- XI. Biographical and historical sketches -- XII. Mathematical lexicon & addenda.