The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
- ISBN-10
- 030738991X
- ISBN-13
- 9780307389916
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-14
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Benoit Mandelbrot
Description
A Yale mathematician best known for his ideas on fractals traces his early years as a member of a Lithuanian Jewish family in Warsaw, his education under challenging circumstances, and his development of a new geometry that unfolded formerly hidden laws governing chaos and the natural and financial worlds. Reprint.
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