Benoit Mandelbrot

✶November 20, 1924

†October 14, 2010

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About their life

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.

French-American mathematician (1924–2010)

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Biography from the article Benoit Mandelbrot on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.