| LC control no. | n 81107154 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mandelbrot, Benoit B. |
| Variant(s) | Mandelbrot, Benoit Mandelbrot, B. B. (Benoit B.) ベノワ・B.マンデルブロ |
| Other standard no. | 0000000120968076 |
| Birth date | 1924-11-20 |
| Death date | 2010-10-14 |
| Place of birth | Warsaw (Poland) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Fractals Mandelbrot sets Chaotic behavior in systems |
| Affiliation | Thomas J. Watson IBM Research Center Yale University |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Some potential problems arising in the theory of axial turbomachines, 1949. 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.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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