The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
Ranked #9 in Business Statistics, Ranked #22 in Corporate Finance — see more rankings.
From the world-famous inventor of fractal geometry, a revolutionary new theory that turns on its head our understanding of how markets work. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf, a rocky coastline or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties - to make the complex simple. With his fractal tools, Benoit Mandelbrot has got to the bottom of how financial markets really work. He finds they have a shifting sense of time, a unique dimension and a wild kind of behaviour that makes them volatile, dangerous - and also... more
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James Owen Weatherall What Mandelbrot realised early on, at the start of the 1960s, was that the kind of assumptions about statistics that everyone was making were wrong. (Source)
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- #49 in Analysis
- #71 in Finance
- #57 in Investment
- #30 in Probability
- #94 in Statistics
- #70 in Stocks
- #53 in Trade
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