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After spending most of his career teaching and writing about mathematics at Winchester, Durell retired to East Preston, Sussex, wintering in Madeira and South Africa, where he died in 1968. His estate at death amounted to £200,098, which in the 1960s was a large fortune for the son of a clergyman to amass as a schoolmaster.
Exclusive Books is one of South Africa's largest bookselling chains with stores throughout South Africa, and one store in Gaborone, Botswana and one in Windhoek, Namibia. As of 1 December 2013, the chain is owned and operated by a private group of investors. It was previously owned by the Times Media Group (TMG), after TMG took control of Avusa.
The book's author, Paulus Gerdes (1952–2014), was a mathematician from the Netherlands who became a professor of mathematics at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique, rector of Maputo University, and chair of the African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa. He was a prolific author, especially of ...
By 1904 the company had stores across South Africa and continued to expand to meet demand for news during World War I. The company was floated on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1903 to raise £120,000 [3] (equivalent to £129,500,000 in 2017 based on its economic share). [4] By 1928 the company was publishing most of South Africa's newspapers.
The Rinehart brothers were the sons of Mary Roberts Rinehart, a famous mystery writer whose books were published by the company. [3] Rinehart had supported her sons by leaving Doubleday, Doran when they (with Farrar) established Farrar & Rinehart in 1929; her bestselling mysteries were a mainstay of the new imprint.
Bidorbuy.co.za became the largest online marketplace in South Africa and Africa. [2] In 2010, it invested into PayFast, [3] a local online payment company, and 2014 into the e-commerce company uAfrica.com. [4] It merged with UAfrica, in August 2022 to form Bob Group. [5] In March 2023, UAfrica was rebranded as Bob Go and Bidorbuy as Bob Shop. [6]
New Africa Books is a South African book publisher based in Cape Town. The company incorporates David Philip Publishers , one of South Africa's oldest and most influential independent publishers . New Africa Books currently publishes literary and educational books for adults, children and young adults.
The Fractal Geometry of Nature is a revised and enlarged version of his 1977 book entitled Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension, which in turn was a revised, enlarged, and translated version of his 1975 French book, Les Objets Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension. American Scientist put the book in its one hundred books of 20th century science. [3]