Here is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics, the financial world, and the arts. Mandelbrot recounts his early years in Warsaw and in Paris, where he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle, through his days evading the Nazis in occupied France, to his education at Caltech, Princeton, and MIT, and his illustrious career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. An outside to mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others had thought impossible: develop a new geometry that combines revelatory beauty with a radical way of unfolding formerly hidden scientific laws. In the process he was able to use geometry to solve fresh, real-world problems.
With exuberance and an eloquent fluency, Benoit Mandelbrot recounts the high points of his fascinating life, offering us a glimpse into the evolution of his extraordinary mind.
With full-color inserts and black-and-white photographs throughout.
- ISBN10 0307377350
- ISBN13 9780307377357
- Publish Date 30 October 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 13 October 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pantheon Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English