Benoit Mandelbrot
American mathematician
Born on: November 20, 1924Died on: October 14, 2010
Aged: 85 years 328 days (1030 months)
Nationality: Polish
Birth Sign: Scorpio
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".
He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature.
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