Benoit Mandelbrot
20 November 1924
14 October 2010
Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United States, acquiring dual French and American citizenship
Mandelbrot was most famously known for his work in exploring the mathematical shapes known as “fractals.” Fractals are shapes that reproduce themselves infinitely–each offshoot of the shape is an approximate miniature of the original shape (including the offshoots). This property (each part being a miniature of the original shape) is called “self-similarity.”
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Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals And The Art of Roughness
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