Benoit Mandelbrot - When I first began studyin...

When I first began studying prices, it wasn't a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data on price changes presented in a lecture and realized they behaved similarly to the geometric models I was already studying.

Benoit Mandelbrot

French Mathematician

Born: Nov 20, 1924

Died: Oct 14, 2010

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