Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Born · 1924

Warsaw, Poland

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".

Known for

7.7

Clouds Are Not Spheres

2010

6.6

Fractals: The Colors of Infinity

1995

6.0

The Genius and the Boys

2009

Fractals: An Animated Discussion

1990