Benoît B. Mandelbrot(1924-2010)

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American mathematician and scientist who was born in Poland. He is a leader in the development of fractal theory and in the potential application of fractals to nature and design. Dr. Mandelbrot discovered the Mandelbrot Set on 1 March 1980 while working as an IBM Fellow at the Watson Research Center. Received his first PhD in Paris 1952: "Docteur d'Etat". Has held numerous professorial appointments at many different universities over time.

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Known for

Clouds are not Spheres

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Self

1995

Nova

8.7

TV Series

Self - physicist - Yale University(as Benoit Mandelbrot)

The Alphabet of Shapes

TV Movie

Self

1994

They Were There

6.5

Short

Self(as Benoit Mandelbrot)

2011

Alternative name
- Benoit Mandelbrot
Born
- November 20, 1924
- Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Died
- October 14, 2010
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA(pancreatic cancer)
Spouse
- Aliette Kagan? - October 14, 2010 (his death, 2 children)
Other works
(book) "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension". New York: W.H. Freeman, 1977. ISBN-10: 0716704730; ISBN-13: 9780716704737
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- 1 Print Biography
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A mathematician, considered a maverick, Mandelbrot developed the concept of 'fractal geometry' in the 1970s & 80s.

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[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.