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Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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Hardcover. Selecta Volume E Num Pages: 552 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCH; KFF; PBMX; PBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 948.
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 Gilmore, late of the University of British Columbia, then (seated) Richard Levitan, now retired, and at ... Read more
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 Gilmore, late of the University of British Columbia, then (seated) Richard Levitan, now retired, and at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
551
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387983639
SKU
V9780387983639
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Reviews for Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E
From the reviews "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 ... Read more