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Mandelbrot the Magnificent
Mandelbrot the Magnificent: A Novella | Liz Ziemska
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"Liz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics hes 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 the Warsaw ghetto and growing up in France during the rise of Hitler, Benoit Mandelbrot found escape from the cruelties of the world around him through mathematics. Logic sometimes makes monsters, and Mandelbrot began hunting monsters at an early age. Drawn into the infinite promulgations of formulae, he sinks into secret dimensions and unknown wonders. His gifts do not make his life easier, however. As the Nazis give up the pretense of puppet government in Vichy France, the jealousy of Mandelbrots classmates leads to denunciation and disaster. The young mathematician must save his family with the secret spaces hes discovered, or his genius will destroy them. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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ralexist
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"A fractal is a way of seeing infinity." - Mandelbrot. This tiny novella tells of Benoit Mandelbrot's, the Father of Fractals, childhood during WWII in Nazi-occupied France. A magical realism lens is thrown over the story lending the reader the opportunity to try and see the mathematical world the way Mandelbrot did. An interesting little read.

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BeckyLeJ
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This novella was super fun and fab! Definitely deserving of more attention!!!

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KimHM
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If Ted Chiang decided to write a Harry Potter story and set it in World War II occupied France, it might be a little like this. It helps if you know what fractals are but it‘s not essential. In the Kindle Single version this is inexpensive and a quick, refreshing little read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️