| Acknowledgments |
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| Beauty and Roughness: Introduction |
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Part One How I Came to Be a Scientist |
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1 Roots: Of Flesh and the Mind |
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2 Child in Warsaw, 1924--36 |
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3 Adolescent in Paris, 1936--39 |
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4 Dirt-Poor Hills of Unoccupied Vichy France, 1939--43 |
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5 On to Lyon: Tighter Occupation and Self-Discovery, 1943--44 |
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6 Horse Groom near Pommiers-en-Forez, 1944 |
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7 Alleluiah! The War Moves Away and a New Life Beckons |
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Part Two My Long and Meandering Education in Science and in Life |
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8 Paris: Exam Hell, Agony of Choice, and One Day at the Ecole Normale Superieure, 1944--45 |
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9 A (Then Rare) Foreign Student at the Ecole Polytechnique, 1945--47 |
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10 Pasadena: Student at Caltech During a Golden Age, 1947--49 |
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112 | (15) |
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11 French Air Force Engineers Reserve Officer in Training, 1949--50 |
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127 | (7) |
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12 Growing Addiction to Classical Music, Voice, and Opera |
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134 | (4) |
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13 Life as a Grad Student and Philips Electronics Employee, 1950--52 |
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138 | (12) |
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14 First Kepler Moment: The Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution of Word Frequencies, 1951 |
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15 Postdoctoral Grand Tour Begins at MIT, 1953 |
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159 | (8) |
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16 Princeton: John von Neumann's Last Postdoc, 1953--54 |
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167 | (8) |
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175 | (6) |
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18 Wooing and Marrying Aliette, 1955 |
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181 | (5) |
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19 In Geneva with Jean Piaget, Mark Kac, and Willy Feller, 1955--57 |
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186 | (6) |
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20 An Underachieving and Restless Maverick Pulls Up Shallow Roots, 1957--58 |
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192 | (7) |
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Part Three My Life's Fruitful Third Stage |
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21 At IBM Research Through Its Golden Age in the Sciences, 1958--93 |
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199 | (15) |
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22 At Harvard: Firebrand Newcomer to Finance Advances a Revolutionary Development, 1962--63 |
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214 | (13) |
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23 On to Fractals: Through IBM, Harvard, MIT, and Yale via Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics, 1963--64 |
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227 | (15) |
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24 Based at IBM, Moving from Place to Place and Field to Field, 1964--79 |
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242 | (7) |
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25 Annus Mirabilis at Harvard: The Mandelbrot Set and Other Forays into Pure Mathematics, 1979--80 |
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249 | (15) |
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26 A Word and a Book: "Fractal" and The Fractal Geometry of Nature |
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264 | (15) |
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27 At Yale: Rising to the University's Highest Rank, Sterling Professorship, 1987--2004 |
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279 | (6) |
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28 Has My Work Founded the First-Ever Broad Theory of Roughness? |
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285 | (6) |
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29 Beauty and Roughness: Full Circle |
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291 | (12) |
| Afterword |
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| Index |
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