Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot · Science & Medicine
Mathematician who founded fractal geometry, widely applied to natural and Earth science patterns
1924, Warsaw, Poland — 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Poland · France · United States
Benoit Mandelbrot is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematician who founded fractal geometry, widely applied to natural and Earth science patterns
Born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Warsaw, Mandelbrot survived Nazi-occupied France and built a wide-ranging career at IBM, where he recognized that irregular, self-similar 'fractal' patterns describe coastlines, financial markets and natural forms. His 1975 coinage of the word 'fractal' and his geometry transformed many fields of science.
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Mathematician who founded fractal geometry, widely applied to natural and Earth science patterns
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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