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Benoit Mandelbrot
French-American mathematician (1924–2010)
See also: Mandelbrot set
Benoit B. Mandelbrot[a][b] (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".[6][7][8] He referred to himself as a "fractalist"[9] and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature.[10]
In 1936, at the age of 11, Mandelbrot and his family emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, to France.
After World War II ended, Mandelbrot studied mathematics, graduating from universities in Paris and in the United States and receiving a master's degree in aeronautics from the Californi