Download This PaperBenoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010): A Greek Among Romans
History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-13, April 2011
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Benoit Mandelbrot 1924-2010: A Greek Among Romans
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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
JEL Classification: G, G1, G14, B, B1, B10, B4, D7, B41
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Estrada, Fernando, Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010): A Greek Among Romans (April 1, 2011). History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-13, April 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1835763
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