Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E

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P.H. Cootner Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Fractals and Scaling in Finance

Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E

P.H. Cootner, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, R.E. Gomory , E.F. Fama

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English

Springer Verlag
01 September 1997

Econometrics; Finance; Mathematics & Sciences; Fractal geometry; Probability & statistics

IN 1959-61, while the huge Saarinen-designed research laboratory at Yorktown Heights was being built, much of IBM's Research was housed nearby. My group occupied one of the many little houses on the Lamb Estate complex which had been a sanatorium housing wealthy alcoholics. The picture below was taken about 1960. It shows from right to left, T. e. Hu, now at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am next, staring at a network I have just written on the blackboard. Then comes Paul Gilmore, late of the University of British Columbia, then (seated) Richard Levitan, now retired, and at the left is Benoit Mandelbrot. x FOREWORD

EF Even in a Lamb Estate populated exclusively with bright research oriented people, Benoit always stood out. His thinking was always fresh, and I enjoyed talking with him about any subject, whether technical, poli tical, or historical. He introduced me to the idea that distributions having infinite second moments could be more than a mathematical curiosity and a source of counter-examples. This was a foretaste of the line of thought that eventually led to fractals and to the notion that major pieces of the physical world could be, and in fact could only be, modeled by distrib utions and sets that had fractional dimensions. Usually these distributions and sets were known to mathematicians, as they were known to me, as curiosities and counter-intuitive examples used to show graduate students the need for rigor in their proofs.

By: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Foreword by: R.E. Gomory
Assisted by: P.H. Cootner, E.F. Fama, W.S. Morris
Imprint: Springer Verlag
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 2.140kg
ISBN: 9780387983639
ISBN 10: 0387983635
Pages: 568
Publication Date: 01 September 1997
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E

From the reviews<br> 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) <p>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.