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Name: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Birth Date: November 20, 1924
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Nationality: Polish
Gender: Male
Occupations: mathematician, educator

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Biography of Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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The Polish-born French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot (born 1924) is the inventor of fractals. Fractal geometry has been described as one of the major developments of 20th-century mathematics. He calls himself "a physicist also, and an...
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Biography of Benoit Mandelbrot
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One of the youngest fields of mathematics-- fractals--deals with geometric shapes that are self-similar, that is, that have a similar appearance at any level of magnification. The early development of fractal mathematics owes much to the work of Benoit...
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Biography of Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot is a mathematician who conceived, developed, and named the field of fractal geometry. This field describes the everyday forms of nature--such as mountains, clouds, and the path traveled by lightning--that do not fit into the world...


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Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 20 November 1924 ) is a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry". Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982) 1.2 New Scientist interview (2004) 1.3 A Theory of...


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Mandelbrot, Benoit B. Summary
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American Geometer1924– Mandelbrot's...
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1924- Polish-born French Mathematician Polish-born French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot is widely acclaimed as one of the founding fathers of fractal geometry. Educated in France, Mandelbrot shunned the prevailing French emphasis on pure mathematics...
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Fractal Theory and Benoit Mandelbrot Summary
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In 1975 Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924- ) wanted a word to describe the strange group of mathematical sets he was studying, and looked for inspiration in his son's Latin dictionary. The term he created was "fractal" to describe sets...
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Benoît Mandelbrot Information
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot, PhD, (born November 20, 1924) is a Jewish-American mathematician, best known as the "father of fractal geometry". He was born in Poland, but his family moved to France when he was a child; he is a dual French and American citizen...


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The Boston Globe
Mandelbrot's Got Our Number
07/27/1992: 874 words, approx. 3 pages
For the jacket of my recent collection of science essays, the publisher proposed a representation of the Mandelbrot set, a computer- generated mathematical pattern of wonderful complexity, one of a family of patterns called fractals. "But there's not a single word about fractals...
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Science News
Bordering on infinity: focusing on the Mandelbrot set's extraordinary boundary. (Cover Story)
11/23/1991: 928 words, approx. 3 pages
The Mandelbrot set serves as a prime example of how simple mathematical operations can yield astonishingly complex geometric forms. Resembling a hairy snowman, this intricate shape has a convoluted border of loops and curlicues that calls to mind the extravagant ornamentation of baroque...
 


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