Mandelbrot the Magnificent

“Liz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he’s brought to the world.” —Karen Joy Fowler

Mandelbrot the Magnificent is a stunning, magical pseudo-biography of Benoit Mandelbrot as he flees into deep mathematics to escape the rise of Hitler.

Born in Warsaw and growing up in France during the rise of Hitler, Benoit Mandelbrot found escape from ...