Mandelbrot pursues love and family life – and does it with the usual cast of exceptional and brilliant people. Best Quote(s) “Without her willingness to let me gamble my life—and hers and our children’s—the odd career I undertook would have … Continue reading
Young Mandelbrot has completed his PhD and looking for employment, mentors and other problems that will all work towards his goal of a Keplerian type view of a major problem. Zipf put him on the path to Fractals, but Fractals … Continue reading
The Chapter starts with the tale of a public lecture where Mandelbrot is excoriated – but then experiences a classic ‘Oppenheimer’ explanation. Following a fractal pattern, we then find Von Neumann providing another level of explanation on top of Oppenheimer. … Continue reading
Mandelbrot heads to MIT (images above from this MIT group), studies under a pioneer and namer of ‘cybernetics’ and continues on his quest to uncover and master a Keplerian field of study. Best Quote(s) “Cybernetics” was a word Wiener had … Continue reading
Our scientist-hero has identified a goal – creating a ‘Keplerian’ field of study which he can pioneer. Mandelbrot has found a mentor, Kastler, who understood the need to drift between worlds and excelled at it. He has a method to … Continue reading
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“Unlike Szolem, I enjoy intellectual fencing and occasionally showing off. Otherwise—like Szolem—I absolutely stopped having patience for their games.” Like Tversky and Kahneman – there had to be a base rate. Mandelbrot needed to engage with his peers and barb … Continue reading
Opera and classical music becomes a passion for some – but it has never been so for me. Synthetic, computer generated music on its own has never sounded good to me – but I do like how it can be … Continue reading
As noted in his quote below, Mandelbrot enters Polytechnique literally in rags and is one of the few international students. He devours the opportunities in front of him, while also realizing that the degree will provide him golden handcuffs that … Continue reading
“A BLESSING THROUGHOUT LIFE: I never wonder who I am. To the contrary, many successive bureaucracies wondered endlessly.” Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractalist – Location 1995 Continue reading
This chapter documents the many remarkable minds and concepts that Mandelbrot encountered in his studies, all while he was searching for a remarkable topic to develop fully as his own. His self reflection while wandering in a field of geniuses … Continue reading
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