How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional DimensionAuthor(s): Benoit MandelbrotSource: Science, New Series, Vol. 156, No. 3775 (May 5, 1967), pp. 636-638Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1721427Accessed: 02/12/2010 12:45

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Issue Table of ContentsScience, New Series, Vol. 156, No. 3775 (May 5, 1967), pp. 571-680Front Matter [pp. 571-676]LettersA Plea for Man and Nature [p. 581]Political Arena at Berkeley [pp. 581-582]Humanitarianism and CBW [p. 582]

Public-Private Organizations [p. 587]Salvage Archeology in the Missouri River Basin [pp. 589-597]Regulation of the Lac Operon [pp. 597-604]The Role of Intuition [pp. 605-610]The Spread of Western Science [pp. 611-622]News and CommentEducational Testing: National Program Enters Critical Phase [pp. 622-624+626]News in Brief [p. 624]LBJ: Praise for the Value of Research [p. 625]Some New Targets Defined for French Science Policy [pp. 626-631]Battery Additives: AID's Chagrin [p. 627]Hornig on Research Policy: Public Understanding: Essential to Scientific Progress [pp. 628-629]

Book ReviewsReview: Toward a More Rigorous Psychophysics [pp. 632-633]Review: Hepaticology [p. 633]Review: Extracellular Fluids [pp. 633-634]Review: Analyses of Materials [p. 634]Review: The Color Center [pp. 634-635]Review: On Information on Information [p. 635]Review: Radioactivity in the Sea [p. 635]

ReportsHow Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension [pp. 636-638]Zonation of Uplifted Pleistocene Coral Reefs on Barbados, West Indies [pp. 638-640]Variation in Atmospheric Carbon-14 Activity Relative to a Sunspot-Auroral Solar Index [pp. 640-642]Blake Outer Ridge: Development by Gravity Tectonics [pp. 642-645]Superconductivity at 20 Degrees Kelvin [pp. 645-646]Hexokinase Isoenzymes in Human Erythrocytes: Association of Type II with Fetal Hemoglobin [pp. 646-648]Amino Acids and the Spikes from the Retinal Ganglion Cells [pp. 648-650]Plastic Films on Plants as Antitranspirants [pp. 650-652]Magnetic Fields around the Torso: Production by Electrical Activity of the Human Heart [pp. 652-654]Quinacrine (Atebrin): Mode of Action [pp. 655-656]Transverse Tubule Apertures in Mammalian Myocardial Cells: Surface Array [pp. 656-657]Adjuvant Activity of Erythrocyte Isoantigens [pp. 658-659]Human Fibroblasts Infected with Rubella Virus Produce a Growth Inhibitor [pp. 659-661]Separation of Transit of Auxin from Uptake: Average Velocity and Reversible Inhibition by Anaerobic Conditions [pp. 661-663]Dechlorination of DDT in Frozen Blood [pp. 663-665]Plasma Membranes of Rat Liver: Isolation of Lipoprotein Macromolecules [pp. 665-667]Steroid-Sensitive Single Neurons in Rat Hypothalamus and Midbrain: Identification by Microelectrophoresis [pp. 667-669]Deuterium and Oxygen-18 in Natural Waters: Analyses Compared [p. 669]

MeetingsBasic Science in Mission-Oriented Endeavor [pp. 670-672]Cell, Tissue, and Organ Culture [pp. 672-673]Electron Microscopy [p. 673]Calendar of Events [pp. 673+675-676]

Back Matter [pp. 677-680]