Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - 2011 ): A Greek among Romans

Fernando Estrada

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Abstract: Posthumous tributes to Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010) have highlighted his remarkable influence on the natural sciences, from geometry to meteorology, to theories with non-Euclidean spaces and geospatial models approach. Mandelbrot culminates a series of major thinkers going back to classical Greece: a Greek among Romans

Keywords: Mandelbrot, Fractals; Finance, Financial Markets, Epistemology, Thomas Kuhn (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 B10 B23 B4 B41 C5 C70 D7 G00 G01 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04-28
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Published in History of Economic Ideas / Fabrizio Serra Editore / Pisa - Roma 1.XIX(2011): pp. 1-13

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