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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. 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benoit Mandelbrot is the 80th most popular mathematician (down from 77th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Poland (up from 90th 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 80 out of 1,004. Before him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Bhāskara II, Regiomontanus, János Bolyai, Katherine Johnson, and Pappus of Alexandria. After him are Thābit ibn Qurra, Zhang Heng, Alfred North Whitehead, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Simon Stevin, and Herbert A. Hauptman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 17. Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Eli Cohen, James Black, Süleyman Demirel, Khamtai Siphandon, and Jean-François Lyotard. After him are Maurice Jarre, Sarah Vaughan, Georges Charpak, Lauren Bacall, Roger Guillemin, and Jacques Le Goff. Among people deceased in 2010, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 13. Before him are Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, James Black, Gloria Stuart, Louise Bourgeois, and Eddie Fisher. After him are Georges Charpak, Maurice Allais, Éric Rohmer, Bobby Farrell, Alois Brunner, and Claude Chabrol.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Benoit Mandelbrot ranks 78 out of 1,694. Before him are Emil von Behring (1854), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), and Erwin von Witzleben (1881). After him are Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Horst Köhler (1943), and Jan Matejko (1838).

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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), Ernst Kummer (1810), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Martin Kutta (1867), and Hermann Grassmann (1809).

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