Mandelbrot Benoit, Signed (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed and dated by Bill Hirst. signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the photogrpaher, Bill Hirst opposite the title page. Bill Hirst's business card is (lightly) taped to the front flap of the jacket. And laid in is a handwritten postcard from the photographer which is signed "Bill". Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small, faint spot on top edge of textblock. Jacket lightly crimped at head of spine. No chips or tears. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original laminated boards. Near Fine. Inscribed: 'For Don Glaser/With the compliments of/Benoit Mandelbrot/Oct 97'. With: A.L.S. from Mandelbrot to Glaser. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 was awarded to Donald A. Glaser 'for the invention of the bubble chamber'. 'The physicist Donald Glaser and I often went to concerts together, and I followed his career closely. As an experimental high-energy physicist, he invented the bubble chamber, which experts in thermodynamics had declared impossible against the laws of physics because it contradicted a statement in a book by established physicist Enrico Fermi. That statement was revealed to be incorrect, the chamber became a basic tool, and Glaser earned a Nobel for it. Only then did he reveal that he had 'converted' from physics to molecular biology. True to form, he attended the meeting on my seventieth birthday celebrating my versatility and regaled participants with tales of his' (Mandelbrot, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick, 2014, p. 123). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Signed by Benoit Mandelbrot. 'This is the first book in the Selecta, the collected works of Benoit Mandelbrot. This volume incorporates his original contributions to finance and is a major contribution to the understanding of how speculative prices vary in time. The chapters consist of much new material prepared for this volume, as well as reprints of his classic papers. Much of this work helps to lay a foundation for evaluating risks in trading strategies. Statistical Papers, 2000: '. . . this is a most useful collection of Mandelbrot's work in economics, it provides an excellent starting point for anybody interested in the origin of many current topics in empirical finance or the distribution of income' (Springer Web site). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition in English, second printing of Les objets fractals, form, hasard et dimension (1st French ed., 1975). xvi, 1 leaf, 365 pp; illus. Original cloth, large square 8vo. Very Good, in fair dust jacket (torn and chipped). Signed by Mandelbrot on the title page and dated 1985. Mandelbrot has added the word 'obsolete' next to the title. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. x, leaf, 432 pp; illus. Original cloth. For edges of pages foxed. Very Good, in dust jacket. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY LASZLO TISZA TO BENOIT MANDELBROT: "To Benoit / with pleasant recollection of our/ interaction some twenty odd years/ ago, and thanks for his gracious and grateful contribution to/ this volume/ Laszlo." Mandelbrot's contribution to this festschrift is the first one in the volume: "A Fractal Attractor, and Why It May Matter" (pp. 3-6). "Except in cases of extraordinary longevity, friendship with an older colleague is generally brief. Thus, it was a rare privilege that my friendship with the physicist László Tisza (1907-2009) lasted far longer than usual. He obliged by being born on 7/7/07 and the next 7/7/07 provided me with my only chance so far to talk to someone in the process of turning a hundred years old. The man was short, slight, retiring, and soft-spoken. Upon meeting him, I was told that he had been a well-known and productive researcher--in fact, had come close to fame by almost explaining a curious phenomenon called superfluidity of very low-temperature helium. However--as was added immediately--serious mistakes in that work had to be corrected by his onetime adviser, a star physicist named Lev Landau (1908-68). In truth, Tisza had made no mistake and deserved the credit he did not receive. Tisza was victimized by Landau, but lived long enough for this to be recognized. Instead of clamoring for full credit, he nominated Landau for a prize for this work. Tisza and I interacted intensely for a few years after a symposium on information theory held at MIT in the summer of 1956. The paper I presented there described an axiomatic for statistical thermodynamics that developed from the second half of my Ph.D. thesis. Asked to comment on my advance text, Tisza praised it handsomely and described himself, on this occasion, as being my student! Given the age difference, his words were a rarity--balm on my heart. Tisza was a hugely helpful professor. I was delighted to trigger an early celebration of his centennial. A large room was filled, a few people came from far away, and the mood was warm and altogether cheerful. His life had produced little needless sound and fury addressed to outsiders, and much reflection for his friends and his own pleasure. It extended late and added at least one solid brick to the permanent edifice of physics. Many mysteries remain open, but long live diversity. I was very moved" (The Fractalist, pp. 164-65; there is a section in The Fractalist entitled "Noam Chomsky and László Tisza.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 190 pp; illus. Original two-tone boards. Near Fine, in dust jacket. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD TO BENOIT MANDELBROT: "For Benoit Mandelbrot/ Best wishes/ Stephen Jay Gould." "In the mid-1970s, I often saw Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), a lively paleontologist with multiple appointments at Harvard. Quite independently, we had become two very visible champions of discontinuity--he in paleontology and I in the variation of financial prices. Early in 1977, I was visiting Boston and called him to see if he was free for lunch while I was in town. He was, and a date was set" (The Fractalist, p. 251). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 297, [1] pp; ads. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY GERD BINNIG TO BENOIT MANDELBROT: "Dear Benoit/ You created a new kind/ of thinking. This book/ is also strongly influenced/ by this./ All the best to you./ Gerd." "What made IBM research a unique experiment historically very significant if not always flawlessly planned? For one thing, relaxed hiring rules brought in many individuals for whom other institutions did not compete: 'oddballs,' 'wild geese,' scientists whose high-class record was marred by some fault or another or by disputes with faculty advisors. I think of . . . Gerd Binnig (very much alive), whose school record had been spotty but who impressed Alex Müller of the IBM branch in Zurich as having a mind capable of 'lifting the heavy Swiss dough.' He went on to invent the microscopes that can see atoms, to bring to IBM a flow of licensing fees, and to create nanoscience. He received for his efforts a Nobel in physics" (Mandelbrot, The Fractalist, p. 207). The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 was divided, one half awarded to Ernst Ruska "for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope", the other half jointly to Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer "for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope.". Signed by Author(s).

First edition of the mathematician's groundbreaking work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Samuel With the author's compliments Benoit Mandelbrot." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. In 1975, Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term fractal to describe these structures and first published his ideas in 1975, and later translated, Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension. According to mathematics scientist Stephen Wolfram, the book was a "breakthrough" for Mandelbrot, who until then would typically "apply fairly straightforward mathematics . to areas that had barely seen the light of serious mathematics before." Wolfram adds that as a result of this new research, he was no longer a "wandering scientist", and later called him "the father of fractals": Until Mandelbrot, most mathematicians believed the irregular shapes found in nature were too fragmented or amorphous to be described mathematically. However in the 1960s and 1970s, Mandelbrot developed his concept of fractal geometry, which helped bring order to complex problems in physics, biology, and even financial markets.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 leaves, 221, [1] pp. Original wrappers. Upper corners of pages slightly bumped in second half of book. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY PAUL LÉVY TO BENOIT MANDELBROT: "A Benoit Mandelbrot/ Bien cordialment/ P. Lévy." Mandelbrot was a student of Paul Lévy, about whom Mandelbrot writes at length in his autobiography The Fractalist. Lévy "documented his life, thoughts, and opinions at length in a book well worth reading [the book offered here] because of his lack of any attempt to appear better or worse than he was. The best passages are splendid. In particular he describes in touching terms both his fear of being a mere survivor of the last century, and his feeling of being a mathematician unlike all the others. This feeling was widely shared. I recall John von Neumann saying in 1954, 'I think I understand how every other mathematician operates, but Lévy is like a visitor from a strange plant. His own private methods of arriving at the truth leave me ill at ease'.". Signed by Author(s).

373 pp, 1 leaf; 67 figs.; 40 plates. Original (or contemporary?) 1/4-leather and marbled boards. Spine leather dry and rubbed. First Edition. INSCRIBED, PRESENTATION COPY FROM LEPRINCE-RINGUET TO BENOIT MANDELBROT. "My professor physics, Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901-2000), was a man of great charm, ambition, and energy. Fully committed to reviving experimental physics in France after its many years at a standstill, he was investigating high energies using the best tool of the day--cosmic rays. The observations were made at the Pic du Midi Observatory, in the Pyrénées near the Spanish border, and analyzed in Paris. Very popular--nicknamed Le Petit Prince after the best seller by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry--he was actively recruiting for his lab. I rushed to join his team as a part-time apprentice. From my inherited love of gadgets and my training as a toolmaker in wartime Périgueux, I could visualize instantly--in three dimensions plus time--the complicated instruments that the team was designing. But the rhythm of experimentation was too slow for me, and while my Keplerian plans had not yet coalesced, I was definitely bound to become a theorist of some kind. The lecture notes of Leprince-Ringuet were uneven. On topics close to his heart, they were up-to-date, but hastily edited. Otherwise, he kept close to the notes of a Carva predecessor who had borrowed right and left. The ways of fate being inscrutable, the mysterious Carva notes made me pay special attention to thermodynamics. Even so, I didn't get it. So when I went to Caltech in 1947, this was a course I would not miss (and thermodynamics has inspired much of my research). The Carva course had been just good enough to mystify me--and just bad enough to leave me hungry. . . . I applied to Caltech with a letter of recommendation from my Carva physics professor, Louis Leprince-Ringuet. I was accepted and spent two years there" (The Fractalist, pp. 108-09, 113).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original leatherette. Foxed (including the fore edges of the pages). Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED, PRESENTATION COPY FROM SZOLEM MANDELBROJT TO HIS NEPHEW BENOIT MANDELBROT. Benoit Mandelbrot says a lot about Uncle Szolem in his autobiography: "Read this book's dedication. Along with my parents and my wife, Aliette, Uncle Szolem is one of the four people who had the deepest and broadest influence on my life" (The Fractalist, p. 16). 6 publications, published 1926-1958, are reprinted in facsimile, with a bibliography of Szolem Mandelbrojt's publications. Signed by Author(s).

xiv, 277 pp, 1 leaf. Original wrappers. Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED, PRESENTATION COPY FROM SZOLEM MANDELBROJT TO HIS NEPHEW BENOIT MANDELBROT. Benoit Mandelbrot says a lot about Uncle Szolem in his autobiography: "Read this book's dedication. Along with my parents and my wife, Aliette, Uncle Szolem is one of the four people who had the deepest and broadest influence on my life" (The Fractalist, p. 16). 6 publications, published 1926-1958, are reprinted in facsimile, with a bibliography of Szolem Mandelbrojt's publications.

Original pamphlet from February 1969, from the Water Resources Research. Signed by Benoit Mandelbrot on the front cover. In very good condition, in wrappers as issued. For his contributions in mathematics, Benoit Mandelbrot has been awarded the Harvey Prize (1989), the Wolf Foundation Prize for Physics (1993), and the Japan Prize (2003). Science writer Arthur C. Clarke credits the Mandelbrot set as being "one of the most astonishing discoveries in the entire history of mathematics.".

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Benoit B. Mandelbrot on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner, noted physicist Michael E. Fisher; with Fisher's inked ownership markings to the top corner of the front free endpaper and his penciled notes to the copyright page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, bumping to top edge of boards, slight wear to extremities, contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and light wear, toning to the blindside.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. A fantastic association copy signed in the year of publication by Benoit Mandelbot and inscribed to John Hubbard, "For John Hubbard / Cordially / Benoit Aug 31, 1982. / John: This book was [?] written long ago and delivered to the publisher on Aug 15, 81, as I told you when we talked last February [?]". A lovely inscription from the man hailed as the "father of fractals" to one of the mathematicians who shortly thereafter co-discovered the Mandebrot Set with Adrien Douady in 1985, naming it of course for Mandelbrot. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good boards lightly bowed and lightly edge-worn, pages lightly toned. In an unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, light edge wear and a crease to the front flap. Greatly expanded from Mandelbrot's 1977 book entitled Fractals. A great association copy between two mathematicians whose impact on 20th century mathematics was immense.

First editions of Shubik's work regarding the theory of money. Octavo, 2 volumes. Association copies, both volumes are inscribed by Martin Shubik to Benoit Mandelbrot. Volume one is signed, "To Benoit and Aliette To old friends with best wishes Martin S. June 7, 2000. P.S. You made an error. You were going to get a free copy- if need you can assign it." Volume 2 is inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Benoit and Aliette To old friends with best wishes Martin Shubik June 7, 2000." Mandelbrot writes, "The indispensable intermediary who started the process that led me to Yale was a self-described 'institutional economist' Martin Shubik. We had met while I was John Von Neumann's postdoc at the Institute For Advanced Study and he was at Princeton University with Oskar Morgenstern, Johnny's co-author of the book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. For a short period in the sixties, we were colleagues at IBM research, but he soon left for Yale. Out of the blue, Shubik called me when I was in transit to Harvard in 1964 and again early in 1967. The first time, I must have rebuffed him. The second time I must have sounded more open. Shortly afterward, a call from the mathematics chairman, Ronald Raphael Coifman" (The Fractalist pp. 279-80). Both volumes are fine in near fine dust jackets with light shelf wear. An exceptional association. "Mathematical institutional economics"--a term Martin Shubik coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal financial institutions that appear as a logical, technological, and institutional necessity, as part of the "rules of the game." Money and financial institutions are assumed to be the basic elements of the network that transmits the sociopolitical imperatives to the economy. Volume 1 deals with a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. Volume 2 explores the new economic features that arise when we consider multi-period finite and infinite horizon economies.