The fractalist : memoir of a scientific maverick /
Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
The fractalist : memoir of a scientific maverick / Benoit B. Mandelbrot. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2012. - xvii, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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 lo
9780307377357 (hbk.) 0307377350 (hbk.)
2009017896
Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
Mathematicians--France--Biography.
Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
Fractals.
QA29.M34 / A3 2012
510.92 B
The fractalist : memoir of a scientific maverick / Benoit B. Mandelbrot. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2012. - xvii, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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 lo
9780307377357 (hbk.) 0307377350 (hbk.)
2009017896
Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
Mathematicians--France--Biography.
Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
Fractals.
QA29.M34 / A3 2012
510.92 B