As quoted in "Fractal Finance" by Greg Phelan in Yale Economic Review (Fall 2005)
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
— Benoît Mandelbrot
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About Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".
About Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".
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