Benoît Mandelbrot - Early years

Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924) is a Polish-born French mathematician and leading proponent of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Benoît Mandelbrot - Early years. Born in Warsaw, Mandelbrot lived in France from the age of 12 to near the end of his college studies. He was born into a family with a strong academic tradition - his mother was a medical doctor and his unc ...

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Born in Warsaw, Mandelbrot lived in France from the age of 12 to near the end of his college studies. He was born into a family with a strong academic tradition - his mother was a medical doctor and his uncle, Szolem Mandelbrojt, was a famous Parisian mathematician. His father, however, made his living trading clothing. His family left Poland for Paris in 1936. There, Benoît was introduced to mathematics by his two uncles. Mandelbrot attended the Lycée Rolin in Paris until the start of World War II, when his family moved to Tulle. I ...

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From 1955 onwards Mandelbrot worked on problems and published papers in fields as diverse as information theory, economics and fluid dynamics. He became convinced that a common theme of self-similar structures ran through all of these real-world problems. In 1975 Mandelbrot coined the term fractal to describe these structures, and published his ideas in Les objets fractals, forme, hasard et dimension (translated into English as ...

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Although Mandelbrot invented the word fractal, many of the objects featured in The Fractal Geometry of Nature had been previously described by other mathematicians (the Mandelbrot set being a notable exception). However, they had been regarded as isolated curiosities with unnatural and non-intuitive properties. Mandelbrot brought these objects together for the first time and highlighted their common properties, such as self-similarity (sometimes partial or statistical), s ...

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