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Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Born

in Warsaw, Poland

November 20, 1924

Died

October 14, 2010

Genre

Nonfiction, Mathematics

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Benoît B. Mandelbrot, O.L.H., Ph.D. (Mathematical Sciences, University of Paris, 1952; M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1949) was a mathematician best known as the father of fractal geometry. He was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center; and Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Mandelbrot was born in Poland, but his family moved to France when he was a child; he was a dual French and American citizen and was educated in France. He has been awarded with numerous honors, including induction into the Legion d'honneur, as well as the 1986 Franklin Medal for Physics, the 1993 Wolf Prize for Physics, the 200 ...more

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	The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson 4.09 avg rating — 6,237 ratings — published 1997 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fractal Geometry of Nature 4.23 avg rating — 1,300 ratings — published 1977 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick 3.76 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension 3.85 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1975 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fractals and Chaos: The Mandelbrot Set and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gaussian Self-Affinity and Fractals: Globality, The Earth, 1/f Noise, and R/S by Benoît B. Mandelbrot, F.J. Damerau (Assistant), M. Frame (Assistant) 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nel mondo dei frattali 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education by Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Michael Frame 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
$Multifractals and 1/ƒ Noise...$	Multifractals and 1/ƒ Noise: Wild Self-Affinity in Physics 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.”
― Benoît Mandelbrot

tags: the-fractal-geometry-of-nature

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“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”
― Benoît B. Mandelbrot

tags: accidents, events, fractals, life, pattern

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“For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.”
― Benoît B. Mandelbrot, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

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