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Mandelbrot, Benoit B

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Personal name headingMandelbrot, Benoit B.
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Variant(s)Mandelbrot, Benoit
Mandelbrot, B. B. (Benoit B.)
ベノワ・B.マンデルブロ
Other standard no.0000000120968076
Birth date1924-11-20
Death date2010-10-14
Place of birthWarsaw (Poland)
Place of deathCambridge (Mass.)
Field of activityFractals Mandelbrot sets Chaotic behavior in systems
AffiliationThomas J. Watson IBM Research Center
Yale University
Profession or occupationMathematicians
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Found inHis Some potential problems arising in the theory of axial turbomachines, 1949.
His The fractal geometry of nature, c1982: CIP galley t.p. (Benoit B. Mandelbrot) CIP data sheet (b. 1924)
Fractals, graphics, and mathematics education, c2002: t.p. (Benoit B. Mandelbrot) cover (B.B. Mandelbrot)
Fractals and chaos, c2004: CIP t.p. (Benoit Mandelbrot) bk. t.p. (Benoit B. Mandelbrot) p. vi (Sterling Prof. of Mathematical Sciences, Yale Univ., and IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics), IBM Research Center; Docteur ès Sciences Mathématiques, Univ. de Paris)
Fractal geometry and applications, c2004: CIP t.p. (a jubilee of Benoît Mandelbrot)
New York times WWW site, Oct. 19, 2010 (in obituary published Oct. 16: Benoît B. Mandelbrot (he added the middle initial himself, though it does not stand for a middle name); b. Nov. 20, 1924, Warsaw, to a Lithuanian Jewish family; d. Thursday [Oct. 14, 2010], Cambridge, Mass., aged 85; maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance, and many other fields; in 1936 his family fled the Nazis, first to Paris and then to the south of France, where he tended horses and fixed tools.)
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