[lit-ideas] Re: Benoit Mandelbrot

  • From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:07:25 +0900

One of the truly brilliant minds of our time. How many thinkers do you know
whose influence is visible in design, mathematics, economics and
proliferating in fields like sociology, e.g., in Andrew Abbott's *Chaos of
Disciplines.*
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*John
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Important thinker whose work arguably has important philosophical
> implications - for example, on the relation between maths and physics and on
> information theory, whatever that is.
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101
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> Donal
> London
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