Fractals and Scaling in Finance, 1997th Edition
Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E
- Hardcover
551 pages
- Release Date
18 September 1997
Summary
IN 1959-61, while the huge Saarinen-designed research laboratory at Yorktown Heights was being built, much of IBM’s Research was housed nearby. My group occupied one of the many little houses on the Lamb Estate complex which had been a sanatorium housing wealthy alcoholics. The picture below was taken about 1960. It shows from right to left, T. e. Hu, now at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am next, staring at a network I have just written on the blackboard. Then comes Paul Gilm…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780387983639 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0387983635 |
| Author: | Benoit B. Mandelbrot, P.H. Cootner, R.E. Gomory, E.F. Fama, W.S. Morris, H.M. Taylor |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Imprint: | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 551 |
| Edition: | 1997th |
| Release Date: | 18 September 1997 |
| Weight: | 2.14kg |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm |
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“Mandelbrot writes with economy and felicity, and he interperses the more mathematical sections with frank historical anecdotes … All in all, this is a strange but wonderful book.” (PHYSICS TODAY)
Statistical Papers, 2000: “… this is a most useful collection of Mandelbrot’s work economics, it provides an excellent starting point for anybody interested in the origin of many current topics in empirical finance or the distribution of income.”
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