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Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Nov 20, 1924 - Oct 14, 2010 (85 years old) in Warsaw, Poland

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".

Known For

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The Genius and the Boys
Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)

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