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Not really a surprise for someone who was so in thrall to Benoît Mandelbrot, another world-class narcissist. Here's Taleb on Mandelbrot: "[He] had perhaps more
by olifante 13y ago
Not really a surprise for someone who was so in thrall to Benoît Mandelbrot, another world-class narcissist.
Here's Taleb on Mandelbrot: "[He] had perhaps more cumulative influence than any other single scientist in history, with the only close second, Isaac Newton."
That quote really says it all.