Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
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Mandelbrot mapped the math behind roughness itself—coining "fractal" and building a whole geometry around the jagged, self-similar patterns hiding in nature. His obsession with the uncontrolled made him a polymath who saw order in chaos.
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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". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature.
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