Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Beauty and roughness : introduction — How I came to be a scientist. Roots, of flesh and the mind — Child in Warsaw, 1924-36 — Adolescent in Paris, 1936-39 — Dirt-poor hills of unoccupied Vichy France, 1939-43 — On to Lyon : tighter occupation and self-discovery, 1943-44 — Horse groom near Pommiers-en-Forez, 1944 — Alleluiah! the War moves away and a new life beckons — My long and meandering education in science and in life. Paris : exam hell, agony of choice, and one day at the École Normale Superieure, 1944-45 — A (then rare) foreign student at École Polytechnique, 1945-47 — Pasadena : student at Caltech during a Golden Age, 1947-49 — French air force engineers : reserve officer in training, 1949-50 — Growing addiction to classical music, voice, and opera — Life as a grad student and Philips Electronics employee, 1950-52 — First Kepler moment : the Zipf-Mandelbrot distribution of word frequencies, 1951 — Postdoctoral Grand Tour begins at MIT, 1953 — Princeton : John von Neumann’s last postdoc, 1953-54 — Paris, 1954-55 — Wooing and marrying Aliette, 1955 — In Geneva with Jean Piaget, Mark Kak, and Willy Feller, 1955-1957 — An underachieving and restless maverick pulls up shallow roots, 1957-58 — My life’s fruitful third stage. At IBM Research through its Golden Age in the sciences, 1958-93 — At Harvard : firebrand newcomer to finance advances a revolutionary development, 1962-63 — On to fractals : through IBM, Harvard, MIT, and Yale via economics, engineering, mathematics, and physics, 1963-64 — Based at IBM, moving from place to place and field to field, 1964-79 — Annus mirabilis at Harvard : the Mandelbrot Set and other forays into pure mathematics, 1979-80 — A word and a book : fractal and The Fractal Geometry of Nature — At Yale : rising to the university’s highest rank, Sterling Professorship, 1987-2004 — Has my work founded the first-ever broad theory of roughness? — Beauty and roughness : full circle.
Subjects:
- Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
- Mathematicians — France — Biography.
- Mathematicians — United States — Biography.
- Fractals.
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