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

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Mandelbrot, Benoit B.


Mathematicians--France--Biography.
Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
Fractals.

QA29.M34 / A3 2012

510.92 B