Benoît Mandelbrot
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. His family lived in France under German occupation. He 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.
Benoît Mandelbrot Media
Benoît Mandelbrot during his speech at the ceremony when he was made an officer of the Legion of Honour on September 11, 2006, at the École polytechnique
Mandelbrot speaking about the Mandelbrot set, during his acceptance speech for the Légion d'honneur in 2006
Computergraphical study of the critical point 0 of some polynomials pλ{\display
Section of a Mandelbrot set
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85 - Obituary - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ↑ "Benoit Mandelbrot". nndb.com. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
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