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Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010)

mathematician, economist, professor, scientist, computer scientist, engineer

  • lycée du Parc, École polytechnique

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The Fractalist
The fractal geometry of nature
Les objets fractals
An eye for fractals
The Colours of Infinity
Fractals and scaling in finance
The (mis)behavior of markets
Fractals and Chaos
Multifractals and 1/f noise
Gaussian self-affinity and fractals
Thinking in Patterns
Fractal geometry and analysis
Fractals in geophysics
Fractales, hasard et finance, 1959-1997
Fractals, graphics, and mathematics education
Fractals in physics
Fractals
Fractal Geometry and Applications Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Fractal geometry and applications
G.H. Hardy
G.H. Hardy (1877-1947)

mathematician, academic

  • University of Cambridge, Cranleigh School

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Bertrand Russell and Trinity
Hardy, 1877-1947
The integration of functions of a single variable
Orders of Infinity
Ramanujan
An introduction to the theory of numbers
A Course of Pure Mathematics
Some famous problems of the theory of numbers and in particular Waring's problem
A mathematician's apology
Inequalities
The general theory of Dirichlet's series
Collected Papers of G.H. Hardy
Lectures on the mathematical work of Ramanujan
Divergent series
Fourier series
Mr. S. Ramanujan's mathematical work in England
Trinity College lecture room
Calculus and analysis
Alex Bellos
Alex Bellos (born 1969)

news presenter, journalist, mathematician

  • University of Oxford, Richard Taunton Sixth Form College

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Football School Epic Stories
Pele
Alex's Adventures In Numberland
Futebol
Alex Through the Looking-glass
Here's looking at Euclid
Brazil
Football School Season 2
Soccer School Season 1
Can You Solve My Problems?
Where football saves the world
Where soccer rules the world
Visions Of Numberland
Language Lover's Puzzle Book
Beautiful Symmetry
So You Think You've Got Problems?
Football School Star Players
Patterns of the Universe
Soccer School Season 3
Greatest Ever Quiz Book
Terrific Teams
Visions of the Universe
Where Football Celebrates the World
Football School
Where Football Explains the World
Puzzle Ninja
How Football Explains the World
Saunders Mac Lane
Saunders Mac Lane (1909-2005)

mathematician

  • Yale University, University of Chicago

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Saunders Mac Lane
A Survey of Modern Algebra
Algebra
Homology
Categories for the working mathematician
A Survey of Modern Algebra
Sheaves in geometry and logic
Reports of the Midwest Category Seminar V
Categorical algebra
Abgekürzte Beweise im Logikkalkul
Mathematics, form and function
Selected papers
Geometrical mechanics
Abgeku rzte Beweise im Logikkalkul
Algèbre
Notes on higher algebra
Simplical topology
Axiomatic set theory
Saunders Mac Lane : selected papers
Simplicial topology
Algebraic functions
Eilenberg--Mac Lane, collected works
Proof, truth, and confusion
Homology
Oswald Veblen, June 24,1880-August 10, 1960..
Simplicial topology
Curso de topologia geral
Algebra
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-1885)

poet, politician, statistician

  • University of Cambridge

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Monographs personal and social
סיפור חייו של לורד נלסון
The poetical works of Richard Monckton Milnes Lord Houghton
Poetry for the people
Some writings and speeches of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, in the last year of his life
Memorials of many scenes
Memorials of a residence on the continent, and historical poems
Die Briefe Richard Monckton Milnes', ersten Barons Houghton, an Varnhagen von Ense (1844-1854)
The events of 1848, especially in their relation to Great Britain
Palm leaves
One tract more, or, The system illustrated by "The tracts for the times," externally regarded
Selections from the poetical works of Richard Monckton Milnes, lord Houghton
Poems, legendary and historical
[Letter to William L. Garrison]
Monographs personal and social by Lord Houghton
The poetical works of (Richard Monckton Milnes) Lord Houghton
Poems of many years
Poetry for the people, and other poems
Poetical works
A selection from the works of Lord Houghton
The real union of England and Ireland
Die Briefe Richard Monckton Milnes' ersten Barons Houghton, an Varnhagen von Ense (1844-1854) Mit einer literarhistorischen Einleitung und Anmerkungen hrsg. von Walther Fischer
Die briefe Richard Monckton Milnes'ersten barons Houghton an Varnhagen von Ense (1844-1854) mit einer literarhistorischen einleitung und anmerkungen
The earl and the duchess
Poems of many years...
The poems of Richard Monckton Milnes
[Letter to] Dear Sir
Good night & good morning
John Allen Paulos
John Allen Paulos (born 1945)

mathematician

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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A numerate life
Innumeracy
Beyond Numeracy
A mathematician reads the newspaper
Once upon a number
Mathematics and humor
Irreligion
A mathematician plays the stock market
I Think, Therefore I Laugh
Who's Counting?
Zamfir Arbore
Zamfir Arbore (1848-1933)

linguist, librarian, geographer, historian, journalist, statistician, sociologist, biographer, translator, politician, philologist

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Nikolaĭ Petrovich Zubku-Kodreanu
Dicționarul geografic al Basarabiei
Rusia taristă
Sytye i golodnye
Dionys Burger
Dionys Burger (1892-1987)

mathematician, physicist

  • Utrecht University

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Galileo Galilei
Bolland
De vreemde zeemeermin en andere verhalen
Silvestergespräche eines Sechsecks
Sphereland