The Fractalist
Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
324 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780307377357
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A personal account by the late research scientist who revolutionized visual geometry with his ideas about fractals traces his early life as member of a Lithuanian Jewish family in early 20th-century Warsaw, his broad education in Europe and America and his long-time affiliation with IBM, Harvard and Yale. 40,000 first printing.
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