Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - 2011 ) : A Greek among Romans

Estrada, Fernando (2011): Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - 2011 ) : A Greek among Romans. Published in: History of Economic Ideas / Fabrizio Serra Editore / Pisa - Roma , Vol. XIX, No. 1 (17 April 2011): pp. 1-13.

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

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Mandelbrot, Fractals; Finance, Financial Markets, Epistemology, Thomas Kuhn
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G14 - Information and Market Efficiency ; Event Studies ; Insider Trading; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925 > B10 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C5 - Econometric Modeling; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C70 - General; G - Financial Economics > G0 - General > G00 - General; G - Financial Economics > G0 - General > G01 - Financial Crises; D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 > B23 - Econometrics ; Quantitative and Mathematical Studies; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology > B41 - Economic Methodology

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