Source record / 1967

How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension

Benoit Mandelbrot

Paper

Publication

Science 156, 636–638 · 1967

DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3775.636

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Primary author-institution record for statistical self-similarity; not evidence of universal cosmic self-similarity.

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