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La Forme D'une Vie: Mémoires (1924-2010) (2014)

by Benoît B. Mandelbrot(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

2081220369 (ISBN13: 9782081220362)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Flammarion

review 1: As a memoir I thought it was outstanding but his habit of dropping names became a little annoying. It was as if he was trying to legitimize himself when he didn't need it. He is by far the most interesting and contemporary mathematician I know of and his memoir makes me want to Google all his friends and names he drops.I thought he paid too little page interest in how he woed his wife and gave his family life little worth until the end. Maybe he wanted to protect their privacy but I wish he had written more about it. Maybe in a book about his life he didn't consider them as important. I loved the beginning of the book about his early years and looked ahead to find he didn't hardly cover his personal life in the later part. This memoir is mostly about Benoit Mandelbrot's c... moreareer and how he developed his geometry. There are some amazing photos in here both having to do with fractals and also about his personal life. The ones about his personal life only making me wish there was some more written about it. I hope his wife writes a memoir of her life with him. That said, I do love how he developed his career and gives hope to others who go on the road less traveled. He keeps saying how he got his ideas late in life and outside the mainstream of mathematics. He didn't have the research lab like most scientists have. But he did have a lot of help. And I don't think he gives his helpers enough credit. He hardly mentions the computer programmers who helped make fractals possible. And he had a lot of lucky breaks. And a lot of financial help. I don't think he had college loans for instance. In short, this was a fantastic read about one of today's mathematicians. And it describes clearly how he developed the fractal field. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in geometry, math, fractals or men of science. Or anyone interested in memoir. I loved getting to know Benoit Mandelbrot from this perspective.
review 2: Dit zijn de memoires van de uitvinder of ontdekker van de z.g. fractals. (Het is de moeite waard om Fractals in te tikken bij google en dan naar de foto's te gaan). Los van de wetenschappelijke ervaringen is het leven van Mandelbrot ook boeiend om te lezen. Geboren in Litouwen, daarna naar Polen en net voor WWII naar Frankrijk, waar hij en zijn familie uiteindelijk overleven in Vichy Frankrijk. Er zit niet echt veel wiskunde in het boek, wat het makkelijk leesbaar maakt. Maar als je echt wil weten wat fractals zijn, moet je toch een wat meer wetenscahppelijk boek hierover lezen. less

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