
Mandelbrot's fractal revolution shatters Wall Street's illusions. The mathematician who proved markets aren't rational but wildly turbulent - a truth validated by every financial crash since publication. What if everything you know about financial risk is dangerously wrong?
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Picture this: The Dow Jones plummets 29.2% in a single day. According to standard financial models, this should happen once every billion lifetimes of the universe. Yet it occurred on October 19, 1987. This wasn't an anomaly - financial markets routinely experience what conventional theories deem "impossible." This contradiction forms the heart of Benoit Mandelbrot's revolutionary work. As the father of fractal geometry, Mandelbrot spent decades challenging orthodox financial theories, earning praise from legendary investors like Paul Tudor Jones, who called his book "a must-read for anyone with a nickel to invest." Even Warren Buffett acknowledges the flaws in conventional market theories that Mandelbrot exposes. These ideas later influenced Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swan" theory, fundamentally changing how we think about risk in the modern world.
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