Benoit Mandelbrot Biography

Benoit Mandelbrot biography

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NAME: Benoit Mandelbrot
OCCUPATION: Mathematician, Academic Author
BIRTH DATE: November 20, 1924
DEATH DATE: October 14, 2010
EDUCATION: École Polytechnique, California Institute of Technology
PLACE OF BIRTH: Warsaw, Poland
PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Benoit Mandelbrot was known as the father of the fractals, a concept he popularized in The Fractal Geometry of Nature in 1982.

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Benoit Mandelbrot was a mathematician born in Poland, but moved to France as child and then naturalized in the United States. Although Mandelbrot was accomplished in the field of mathematics, he was best known for popularizing geometric fractals in his book, The Fractal Geometry of Nature.