{"id":2373,"date":"2010-10-17T18:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-10-17T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:21:52","slug":"i_dont_know_how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Know How I Missed This News &#8211; Mandelbrot Died Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot died in Cambridge, Mass on Thursday, the day I finished rereading his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0465043577?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=armedliberal-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0465043577\">The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=armedliberal-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0465043577\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a damn good book, and the work he began in studying cotton prices back in 1961 has led to valuable insights &#8211; if not yet well-applied insights.<\/p>\n<p>He saw simplicity where others just saw noise, and to me that is the true sign of genius.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benoit Mandelbrot died last week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}