Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Born 20 November 1924 · Died 14 October 2010
From Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland · Nationality: United States, Poland, France
Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature. --Wikipedia
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Quotes
“Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.”
Fractals : Form, chance and dimension 1977 “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.”
The Fractal Geometry of Nature “A cauliflower shows how an object can be made of many parts, each of which is like a whole, but smaller. Many plants are like that. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds.”
A Theory of Roughness “When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don’t believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.”
A Theory of Roughness “Many creative minds overrate their most baroque works, and underrate the simple ones.”
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
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Books by Benoît B. Mandelbrot in order
Books by Benoît B. Mandelbrot in the order they were published, from Fractals (1975) to The Fractalist (2009).
- 1Fractals
Fractals1975 - 2The Fractal Geometry of Nature
The Fractal Geometry of Nature1982 - 3Fractals in Geophysics
Fractals in Geophysics1989 - 4Fractals in Physics
Fractals in Physics1989 - 5Fractal Geometry and Analysis
Fractal Geometry and Analysis1996 - 6Fractals and Scaling in Finance
Fractals and Scaling in Finance1997 - 7Multifractals and 1/f Noise
Multifractals and 1/f Noise1998 - 8Gaussian Self-affinity and Fractals
Gaussian Self-affinity and Fractals2001 - 9Fractal Geometry And Applications
Fractal Geometry And Applications2004 - 10Fractals and Chaos
Fractals and Chaos2004 - 11The Misbehavior of Markets
The Misbehavior of Markets2004 - 12The Fractalist
The Fractalist2009