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The organizers felt that the time was ripe for an international conference on fractals. The word "fractal" had become part of the scientific language and the number of journal articles involving fractals was dramatically rising. The use of different notations was also rising. The research on fractals had reached the point where we found more new results in the literature than through the telephone calls and letters of friends...