Benoit Mandelbrot

Bemused Nobel Prize winners like Benoit Mandelbrot and writer Orhan Pamuk have presented the awards, often joining in the onstage revelry.

Katherine Meusey: Ig Nobel Prizes: Think First, Then Laugh Katherine Meusey 2011

The former trader-turned-author had said the same words to me the first time we walked and talked together across Ile de la Cite a few days before the mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot, to whom his best-selling book, The Black Swan is dedicated, passed away.

Vivian Norris: A Walk Through Paris With Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vivian Norris 2011

The former trader-turned-author had said the same words to me the first time we walked and talked together across Ile de la Cite a few days before the mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot, to whom his best-selling book, The Black Swan is dedicated, passed away.

Vivian Norris: A Walk Through Paris With Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vivian Norris 2011

The former trader-turned-author had said the same words to me the first time we walked and talked together across Ile de la Cite a few days before the mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot, to whom his best-selling book, The Black Swan is dedicated, passed away.

Vivian Norris: A Walk Through Paris With Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vivian Norris 2011

"To have a name is to be," said Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractals.

Robert Fuller: Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism 2009

Hugh Kenner, whose 1971 magnum opus gave McGurl his name for the earlier era, wrote that modernist literary texts are “self-similar” or “scaling objects,” terms derived from Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractal geometry.

Message and technique 2009

Hugh Kenner, whose 1971 magnum opus gave McGurl his name for the earlier era, wrote that modernist literary texts are “self-similar” or “scaling objects,” terms derived from Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractal geometry.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

The explosion of risk is particularly obvious in certain fields, such as geopolitics, weather systems, and financial markets (although shrewd analysts, like mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, have argued that the risk in markets has always been greater than generally recognized).

Adrian J. Slywotzky and Karl Weber: What Your Boss Means By "Risk" Is Changing: Opportunities Created by the New Risk Management 2008

Yale mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot pointed out the shortcomings of the VaR model in his "The (Mis) behavior of Markets," published in 2004.

The 1% Panic 2008

It was discovered by Benoit Mandelbrot during his early study of fractals in the context of the complex dynamics of quadratic polynomials the 1980s, and studied in greater detail by Douady and Hubbard in the early to mid-80s.

Speedlinking 7/11/07 William Harryman 2007