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Barnsley s fern leaf 1 has become a popular demonstration of the proposed fractal nature of plant form 28 and many sites on the internet. Michael fielding barnsley, born in 1946, is a british mathematician, researcher and an entrepreneur who has worked on fractal compression. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. D in theoretical chemistry from university of wisconsinmadison in 1972 and ba in mathematics from oxford in 1968.
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