Showing posts with label Jonathan Coult. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Coult. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

Benoit Mandelbrot on the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Below, Jonathan Authers of the Financial Times interviews the eminent mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot1. Sorry about this video automatically launching into play. I didn't see an embed feature so I cut and pasted the source code here. Update: Thanks to Alex Garcia, here's the embedded version, via YouTube:




1I wonder if Dr. Mandelbrot knows that Jonathan Coulton made this song about him, Mandelbrot Set. Here are the lyrics to the chorus:

Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Z’s should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set