Benoît B. Mandelbrot est né le 20 novembre 1924 à Varsovie, Mazovie, Pologne. Il était marié à Aliette Kagan. Il est mort le 14 octobre 2010 dans le Massachusetts, États-Unis.
[on his career] If you take the beginning and the end, I have had a conventional career. But it was not a straight line between the beginning and the end. It was a very crooked line.