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This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has got to the bottom of how financial markets really work. He finds they have a shifting sense of time and wild behaviour that makes them volatile, dangerous - and beautiful. In his models, the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.

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      Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 06/11/2008
      ISBN13: 9781846682629, 978-1846682629
      ISBN10: 1846682622
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has got to the bottom of how financial markets really work. He finds they have a shifting sense of time and wild behaviour that makes them volatile, dangerous - and beautiful. In his models, the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.

      Trade Review
      Mandelbrot is acknowledged as the father of chaos theory ... he is, simply, very clever indeed. * Sunday Telegraph *
      The reader gets a clear picture of the history of finance theory ... the best financial read * Financial Times *
      Entertainingly written ... this book is a brain-opener that adds hugely to our sum of knowledge. * Director *

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