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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments by Aliette Mandelbrot
Beauty and Roughness: Introduction
Part One: How I Came to Be a Scientist
1. Roots: Of Flesh and the Mind
2. Child in Warsaw, 1924–36
3. Adolescent in Paris, 1936–39
4. Dirt-Poor Hills of Unoccupied Vichy France, 1939–43
5. On to Lyon: Tighter Occupation and Self-Discovery, 1943–44
6. Horse Groom near Pommiers-en-Forez, 1944
7. Alleluiah! The War Moves Away and a New Life Beckons
Part Two: My Long and Meandering Education in Science and in Life
8. Paris: Exam Hell, Agony of Choice, and One Day at the École Normale Supérieure, 1944–45
9. A (Then Rare) Foreign Student at the École Polytechnique, 1945–47
10. Pasadena: Student at Caltech During a Golden Age, 1947–49
11. French Air Force Engineers Reserve Officer in Training, 1949–50
12. Growing Addiction to Classical Music, Voice, and Opera
13. Life as a Grad Student and Philips Electronics Employee, 1950–52
14. First Kepler Moment: The Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution of Word Frequencies, 1951
15. Postdoctoral Grand Tour Begins at MIT, 1953
16. Princeton: John von Neumann’s Last Postdoc, 1953–54
17. Paris, 1954–55
18. Wooing and Marrying Aliette, 1955
19. In Geneva with Jean Piaget, Mark Kac, and Willy Feller, 1955–57
20. An Underachieving and Restless Maverick Pulls Up Shallow Roots, 1957–58
Part Three: My Life’s Fruitful Third Stage
21. At IBM Research Through Its Golden Age in the Sciences, 1958–93
22. At Harvard: Firebrand Newcomer to Finance Advances a Revolutionary Development, 1962–63
23. On to Fractals: Through IBM, Harvard, MIT, and Yale via Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics, 1963–64
24. Based at IBM, Moving from Place to Place and Field to Field, 1964–79
25. Annus Mirabilis at Harvard: The Mandelbrot Set and Other Forays into Pure Mathematics, 1979–80
26. A Word and a Book: “Fractal” and The Fractal Geometry of Nature
27. At Yale: Rising to the University’s Highest Rank, Sterling Professorship, 1987–2004
28. Has My Work Founded the First-Ever Broad Theory of Roughness?
29. Beauty and Roughness: Full Circle
Afterword by Michael Frame
Inserts
Illustration Credits
About the Author
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