The fractalist : memoir of a scientific maverick / Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

Nathaniel Bowditch and the power of numbers : how a nineteenth-century man of business, science, and the sea changed American life / Tamara Plakins Thornton.

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The fractalist : memoir of a scientific maverick / Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

Nathaniel Bowditch and the power of numbers : how a nineteenth-century man of business, science, and the sea changed American life / Tamara Plakins Thornton.