Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. (INSCRIBED BY MANDELBROT TO NOBEL LAUREATE DONALD GLASER, WITH AN ALS.)

MANDELBROT, Benoit B. (1924-2010):

ISBN 10: 0387983635 / ISBN 13: 9780387983639

Verlag: Berlin, etc.: Springer, 1997., 1997

Beschreibung

First Edition. Original laminated boards. Near Fine. Inscribed: 'For Don Glaser/With the compliments of/Benoit Mandelbrot/Oct 97'. With: A.L.S. from Mandelbrot to Glaser. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 was awarded to Donald A. Glaser 'for the invention of the bubble chamber'. 'The physicist Donald Glaser and I often went to concerts together, and I followed his career closely. As an experimental high-energy physicist, he invented the bubble chamber, which experts in thermodynamics had declared impossible against the laws of physics because it contradicted a statement in a book by established physicist Enrico Fermi. That statement was revealed to be incorrect, the chamber became a basic tool, and Glaser earned a Nobel for it. Only then did he reveal that he had 'converted' from physics to molecular biology. True to form, he attended the meeting on my seventieth birthday celebrating my versatility and regaled participants with tales of his' (Mandelbrot, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick, 2014, p. 123).

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. (INSCRIBED BY MANDELBROT TO NOBEL LAUREATE DONALD GLASER, WITH AN ALS.)
• Verlag: Berlin, etc.: Springer, 1997.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0387983635
• ISBN-13: 9780387983639
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

Mandelbrot is world famous for his creation of the new mathematics of fractal geometry. Yet few people know that his original field of applied research was in econometrics and financial models, applying ideas of scaling and self-similarity to arrays of data generated by financial analyses. This book brings together his original papers as well as many original chapters specifically written for this book.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.