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Interview with Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By Cygnus Atratus

Before I post Nano’s request for the “Money as Debt” video I thought you might like a little commentary from two men who were among the few to predict this current financial clusterfuck. Benoit Mandlebrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb gave this interview in October 2008, just as things were heading south in an alarming fashion. The... »

Fractal Zoom

By Cygnus Atratus

This week I’ll be mostly reading about Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot famously gave us the Mandelbrot Set, fractals and fractal geometry from his research in the 1950’s through to the late 1970’s. He has presented his work in 1982 in the seminal “Fractal Geometry of Nature” which has become a classic in Chaos Theory. Mandelbrot found fractal... »