Cutting Edge introduction: Tales of tails

Laurie Carver
05 Oct 2012

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Benoît Mandelbrot was a maverick Polish-French-American mathematician most famous for his invention of fractals – shapes with a structure that looks the same at all scales – which, aside from mathematics, was a great contribution to student dormitory interior design. He was also the first to show the importance of fat-tailed probability distributions to finance.

While working as a researcher at IBM in the 1960s, he had the freedom to study almost anything he pleased, and chose a subject that did

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