Wolfram on Mandelbrot
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-04-01
Summary:
The most perfect pairing of author and subject since Nicholson Baker and John Updike. Here’s Wolfram on the great researcher of fractals: In his way, Mandelbrot paid me some great compliments. When I was in my 20s, and he in his 60s, he would ask about my scientific work: “How can so many people take [...]