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Hey, /sci. I work in my school's library. We just got rid of our only copy of this book.

Should I be mad, /sci?

>> No.5309088

Nah. If you want popsci there is better on Youtube. If you want to start dynamical systems and fractals you'll need an proper text.

>> No.5309099

>>5309081
Why did they get rid of this book? Its a fucking master piece, similar to Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

>> No.5309105

>>5309081
what kind of library gets rid of books?

>> No.5309107

What the fuck? Tell me it wasn't thrown in the trash

>> No.5309110

>>5309099
Because it hadn't been checked out in over ten years. I was going to do it myself over break. Now I'm SOL.

>> No.5309111

You better have more books on the same topic.

>> No.5309119

Yes, you should be mad.

Mandelbrot himself wrote that book.

Captcha: velsiwh heretics
Heretics they are for throwing away that book.

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>>5309107
I think it gets sent to some third world shithole school. It will probably get replaced with more of those "Conflicting viewpoints" books that are written so kids doing their argument paper in English Comp 1 have their research spoon fed to them.

Seriously, those and The Hunger Games are the only new books we've taken in for since I've been there. They've been purging a bunch of good old stuff for a while. I didn't care when they were working on the Social Sciences and Philosophy sections. But they just hit the science and math section about a week ago. It's been...awful.

>MFW

>> No.5309140

>Fractal Geometry - Kenneth Falconer
>http://www-maths.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~kenneth/
>Fractals Everywhere - Michael F. Barnsley
>BBC program with Alan Davies: "How Long is a Piece of String?"

Enjoy