Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot

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 emigrated with his family to France from Warsaw, Poland. After World War II ended, Mandelbrot studied mathematics, graduating from universities in Paris and in the United States and receiving a master's degree in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoit Mandelbrot has received more than 1,685,509 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Benoit Mandelbrot is the 77th most popular mathematician (down from 73rd in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Poland (up from 75th 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.