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Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life".
Benoit Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French American mathematician universally known as the father of fractals. Fractals have been employed to describe diverse behaviour in economics, finance, the stock market, astronomy, and computer science. Mandelbrot was educated at the École Polytechnique.
Benoît Mandelbrot. He was called the “father of fractals” and “the man who reshaped geometry.”. Mathematician and research scientist Benoît Mandelbrot changed the way we view and measure the world and sparked a revolution in numerous areas of science, industry and art.
Oct 14, 2010 · Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry. He showed how fractals can occur in many different places in both mathematics and elsewhere in nature.
Oct 18, 2010 · On 14 October 2010, the genius who coined the word - Polish-born mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot - died, aged 85, from cancer. Unfortunately, there is no definition of fractals that is both...
Benoit Mandelbrot appeared at the first TED in 1984, and returned in 2010 to give an overview of the study of fractals and the paradigm-flipping insights they've brought to many fields. He died in October 2010 at age 85. Read more about his life on NYBooks.com >>.
Nov 17, 2010 · Mandelbrot, a mathematician world-famous for his work on fractal geometry, died on 14 October at the age of 85. His financial prescience was a natural outgrowth of his original and...
Oct 16, 2010 · Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge,...
Nov 12, 2010 · Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924–2010) A mathematician's revelation about visual irregularities in nature spawned the field of fractal geometry, now widely used to interpret patterns in diverse fields.
Mar 5, 2011 · BENOîT B. MANDELBROT, THE FATHER OF FRACTALS. The man behind the word “fractal”, Benoît B. Mandelbrot (Fig. 1 ), a Polish-born French mathematician, often referred to as the father of fractals, died on 14 October 2010 at the age of 85.
