Author

Books by Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010) was a Polish-French-American mathematician who spent most of his career at IBM Research and later at Yale University. He is the inventor of fractal geometry, named the Mandelbrot set, and introduced the concept to a general audience in The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982). His work on fat-tailed distributions in cotton prices began in the 1960s, making him one of the earliest serious critics of efficient market theory. Richard Hudson, his co-author on this book, is a former editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe.