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Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot

Polish-French mathematician and polymath
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... Wikipedia
Born: November 20, 1924, Warsaw, Poland
Died: October 14, 2010 (age 85 years), Cambridge, MA
Education: University of Paris (1952), California Institute of Technology (1947–1949), École Polytechnique (1945–1947), and more
Full name: Benoît Mandelbrot
Spouse: Aliette Kagan (m. 1955–2010)
Research interests: Mathematics, Fractals, Economics, and more