Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Birthday: 1924-11-20
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Biography: Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life".
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The Genius and the Boys
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Fractals: An Animated Discussion
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