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The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets : a Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

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 straigh
eBook, English, 2010
Profile Books, London, 2010
Electronic books
1 online resource (184 pages)
9781847651556, 1847651550
1048584854
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