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1.The Misbehavior of MarketsThe Misbehavior of Markets

Customer Review:
Mandelbrot describes some problems with financial models that are designed to provide approximations of things that can't be perfectly modeled. He pretends that pointing out the dangers of relying too much on imperfect approximations shows some brilliant insight. But mostly he's just translating... more info

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2.Fractals and Scaling In Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, RiskFractals and Scaling In Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk
from Springer
Price: $43.16

Customer Review:
This book deserves to receive 6 stars.Mandelbrot serves up overwhelming empirical,statistical,and historical evidence that financial decision makers are dead wrong in assuming,contrary to the available evidence, that a normal probability distribution describes the outcomes accurately in financial... more info

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3.The Fractal Geometry of NatureThe Fractal Geometry of Nature
from W. H. Freeman
Price: $36.00

Customer Review:
Benoît Mandelbrot is unquestionably a great savant but he should have taken some lessons on how to write books.
There is an intense feeling of disappointment after reading this book and it is hard to pinpoint why. It's all there: nature in a wondrous new light. An original work which... more info

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4.[no image]The Science of Fractal Images
from Springer

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From page 25" Fractals (a word coined by Mandelbrot in 1975) have blossomed tremendously in the past few years (written in 1988) and have helped reconnect pure mathematics research with both the natural sciences and computing."
This book has both Mathmatical equations and Computer Programs... more info

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5.Fractals and Chaos: The Mandelbrot Set and BeyondFractals and Chaos: The Mandelbrot Set and Beyond
from Springer
Price: $43.96

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6.The (Mis)behaviour of MarketsThe (Mis)behaviour of Markets
from Profile Books Ltd

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7.[no image]Fractals
from W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd

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8.[no image]An Eye For Fractals: A Graphic And Photographic Essay (Studies in Nonlinearity)
from Basic Books

Customer Review:
Looking around in nature, it is easy to find examples of fractals. Individual plants, forests, volcanic activity, wind and water erosion, the flow of water and the movement of plants with the wind can all be described by an appropriate fractal function. Most of the pages of this book are taken up... more info

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9.[no image]Chaos: The New Science (Nobel Conference XXVI)
from University Press of America

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easily read in layman's terms to understand the basic principles of chaos mathematics.

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10.Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education (Mathematical Association of America Notes)Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education (Mathematical Association of America Notes)
from The Mathematical Association of America
Price: $49.95

Customer Review:
When I teach computer programming, the sections that raise the greatest amount of interest are those that involve the manipulation of images. Therefore, it is natural to me that any mathematics that involves the manipulation of images would generate a great deal of student interest. I was a working... more info

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