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

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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). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24232

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Titel: Fractals and Scaling in Finance: ...

Verlag: Berlin, etc.: Springer, 1997.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1997

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition

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"Mandelbrot writes with economy and felicity, and he interperses the more mathematical sections with frank historical anecdotes ... All in all, this is a strange but wonderful book." (PHYSICS TODAY)

Statistical Papers, 2000: "... this is a most useful collection of Mandelbrot's work economics, it provides an excellent starting point for anybody interested in the origin of many current topics in empirical finance or the distribution of income."