An edition of The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
(2009)
The Fractalist
Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
by Benoît B. Mandelbrot
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The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
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Table of Contents
Chance, then free choice, shape a living, fast evolving, and ceaselessly wandering fossil
Unrelated deeds or a unified fractal approach to roughness?
Could the Mandelbrot set really be the most complex object in the whole of mathematics?
Roots, of flesh and the mind
Child in Warsaw (1924-36)
Long summer in today's Belarus
Adolescent in Paris (1936-9)
Muddling through "Vichy," "unoccupied" France, in dirt-poor and forsaken hills (1939-43)
In Lyon : tightening occupation & self-discovery (1943-4)
Paris : exam hell, agony of choice, École normale (1944-5)
Paris : a (rare) foreign student at École polytechnique (1945-7)
Pasadena : student at Caltech during a Golden Age (1947-9)
French air force engineers : reserve officer training (1949-50)
Growing addiction to classical music, voice, and opera
Paris : "doctorand" & employee of Philips Electronics (1950-2)
Modest first Kepler moment : mastering the unevenness of word frequencies (1951)
No longer a promising youth, yet still seeking role models far away : Wiener, Von Neumann, Kac, Feller
Apprentice on a grand tour through varied cities and guilds : Cambridge, MA, Princeton, Geneva
After a year as a French academic, an underachieving and restless maverick pulls roots (1957-58)
Rise to the rank of IBM fellow at IBM research, during its brilliant golden age in science (1958-93)
Itinerant teacher : of economics then engineering at Harvard & later of mathematics at Harvard then Yale
A firebrand newcomer to economics teaches controversial finance at Harvard (1962-3)
Based at IBM, but ceaselessly moving, back and forth, drawn from one place, mystery, or field to another (1964-79)
Writing the fractal geometry of nature and pondering my future and that of fractal geometry as a discipline
At Yale, rising - aged seventy-five - to tenure at this university's highest rank, sterling professorship (1987-2004).
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Includes index.
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