User talk:Hemlockdeadlock

see Mandelbrot Obituary in TIME by Taleb "He was the only teacher I ever had, the only person with whom I could discuss uncertainty without having anger fits" http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2026995,00.html

Taken directly from the book Antifragility (which is the source of the point I corrected):

"So one journalist (Anatole Kaletsky) saw the influence of Benoît Mandelbrot on my book Fooled by Randomness, published in 2001 when I did not know who Mandelbrot was. It is simple: the journalist noticed similarities of thought in one type of domain, and seniority of age, and immediately drew the false inference. He did not consider that like-minded people are inclined to hang together and that such intellectual similarity caused the relationship rather than the reverse. This makes me suspicious of the master-pupil relationships we read about in cultural history: about all the people that have been called my pupils have been my pupils because we were like-minded."

Perhaps we should consider that he did not know Mandelbrot when he first worked on his theories, and when he first published his book.

Do understand that the word 'teacher' has nuances, and in the context of the TIME obituary, he could be making the point that he learnt things from Mandelbrot.

Agreed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vergilden (talk • contribs) 02:22, 25 March 2015 (UTC)