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Mandelbrot, Benoit
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So are the experimental psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, and Hyman Minsky, the expert on financial manias.
Since the mid 70''s, the theory of Fractal Geometry was developed by Benoit Mandelbrot who used the word "fractal" to describe irregularly-shaped objects in nature.
Informally, Mandelbrot (1998) declares fractal geometry to be the systematic study of certain very irregular shapes in either mathematics or nature, wherein each part is very much like a reduced size image of the whole.
 
 
 
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