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Benoit Mandelbrot

1924 - 2010

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Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) 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. In 1936, at the age of 11, Mandelbrot and his family emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, to France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoit Mandelbrot has received more than 2,055,503 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 64 in 2019). Benoit Mandelbrot is the 68th most popular mathematician (up from 77th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Poland (down from 74th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Mathematician.

Benoit Mandelbrot is most famous for his work in fractal geometry, which is the study of shapes that are infinitely complex and self-similar.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 68 out of 823. Before him are Simon Stevin, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Alfred North Whitehead, Ludolph van Ceulen, Hermann Minkowski, and Jacob Bernoulli. After him are Bhāskara II, Willebrord Snellius, Zhang Heng, Katherine Johnson, Urbain Le Verrier, and Giuseppe Peano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 16. Before him are Truman Capote, Sarah Vaughan, Jacques Le Goff, Jean-François Lyotard, Benny Hill, and Black Dahlia. After him are Süleyman Demirel, Paul Feyerabend, Lauren Bacall, Ramiz Alia, Maurice Jarre, and Sergei Parajanov. Among people deceased in 2010, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 9. Before him are Leslie Nielsen, Ronnie James Dio, Tony Curtis, Lech Kaczyński, Gloria Stuart, and Éric Rohmer. After him are Zecharia Sitchin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, Bobby Farrell, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 81 out of 1,454. Before him are Walther Nernst (1864), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Pola Negri (1897), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Anna Jagiellon (1523), and Horst Köhler (1943). After him are Carl Menger (1840), Egon Krenz (1937), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), and Anton Denikin (1872).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 1. After him are Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Ernst Kummer (1810), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896).

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