The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. HudsonPublish date:2006-03-07Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465043576ISBN-10:465043577UPC:9780465043576Book Category:Mathematics, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Corporate Finance, StatisticsSize:9.20 x 5.80 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCXSRX8782
A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets Benoit B. Mandelbrot is world-famous for inventing fractal geometry, making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never assimilated: Clouds are not round, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not smooth. To these insights we can now add another example:...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465043576ISBN-10:465043577UPC:9780465043576Book Category:Mathematics, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Corporate Finance, StatisticsSize:9.20 x 5.80 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCXSRX8782
Benoit B. Mandelbrot was the inventor of fractal geometry, whose most famous example, the Mandlebrot Set, is one of the most iconic images in mathematics. He was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and a Fellow Emeritus at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Laboratory and the recipient of the Wolf Prize in Physics and the Japan Prize in science and technology, as well as...
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