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The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

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I recently started a review 'blog': http://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.com/ Of that list, "Information wants to be shared", and "The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick" stick out as being pretty good. "Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation" was also very interesting, and a clever use of statistics to look at how one specific sector works. I also loved "The Oregon Desert", although it's probably not very interesting to most people out there.