NOUN
- French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924)
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- Benoît Mandelbrot was that IBM employee who successfully measured the coastline of England in 1967, coined the term fractal in 1975 and opened new worlds in mathematics and now, I believe, human emotional understanding. Fractal Geometry, Human Emotion and Social Marketing - Tom Troja - MediaBizBloggers
- Some of the early investigators of chaos were the American physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum; the Polish-born mathematician and inventor of fractals see fractal geometry Benoit Mandelbrot; the American mathematician James Yorke, who popularized the term chaos; and the American meteorologist Edward Lorenz. Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit
- Benoit Mandelbrot pioneered fractal geometry
- Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal theory and a pioneer in the study of market swings, argues that finance is prone to a "wild" randomness not usually seen in nature.
