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The mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot once said that his childhood ambition was to become the “Newton” of a specific mathematical field, no matter how small, in other words to propose something creative and completely innovative in a particular area of mathematics. Ultimately he chose what came to be called fractal objects, at that time relatively unknown geometrical figures with curious properties.
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Crato, N. (2010). Financial Fractals. In: Figuring It Out. Copernicus, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3_42
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