Benoît Mandelbrot
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010)[1] was a Polish-French-American mathematician. Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw into a Jewish-Lithuanian family. He is best known for his works with fractal geometry.[2] He lived and worked until his death in the United States. He was a professor at the University of Yale.
Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw, Poland and died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]
His most known development is the Mandelbrot set, which he discovered and described in 1979.
A picture of the Mandelbrot set.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85 - Obituary - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html?_r=2. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ↑ "Benoit Mandelbrot". nndb.com. http://www.nndb.com/people/752/000022686/. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
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