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First Edition of Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension; Inscribed by Benoit Mandelbrot
MANDELBROT, BENOIT.
Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension.
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman 1977.
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.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144375
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First Editions of Martin Shubik's The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions Volumes 1 &2; Inscribed by Him to Benoit Mandelbrot
SHUBIK, MARTIN [BENOIT MANDELBROT].
The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1999.
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.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 49001
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MANDELBROT, BENOIT AND JAMES R. WALLIS.
Computer Experiments With Fractional Gaussian Noises. Part 1,2,3.
: Water Resources Research 1969.
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.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 2420