{"id":2365,"date":"2010-10-15T22:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T05:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2018-10-23T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:29:49","slug":"benoit-mandelbrot-1924-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/benoit-mandelbrot-1924-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Lull just wrote to inform me that NNT has updated his <a title=\"Nassim Taleb's Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homepage<\/a> as an homage to <a title=\"Benoit Mandelbrot at Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benoit_Mandelbrot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benoit Mandelbrot<\/a>. Looking around the net I see no news of Mandelbrot&#8217;s passing so must assume that NNT was very close to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In May, NNT Tweeted, &#8220;Mandelbrot\u2019s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taleb referred to Mandelbrot as his mentor.<br \/>\nThe two were interviewed by NPR in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Taleb NPR Interview, Audio Only.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2365-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blackswanreport.com\/media\/mandelbrot-taleb-20081021_solman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blackswanreport.com\/media\/mandelbrot-taleb-20081021_solman.mp3\">http:\/\/blackswanreport.com\/media\/mandelbrot-taleb-20081021_solman.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Paul Solman NPR Interview 2008 10 21<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DLFkQdiXPbo<\/p>\n<p>with Spanish captions:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crise Econ\u00f4mica Imprediz\u00edvel\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NxwN2MRbkho?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Nassim Taleb Tweeted, &#8220;Mandelbrot\u2019s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1,4,33],"tags":[319,218,19,150,278],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-contributors","category-john","category-video","tag-benoit-mandelbrot","tag-dave-lull","tag-nassim-taleb","tag-npr","tag-paul-solman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8938,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}