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Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot, born on November 20, 1924, and died on October 14, 2010, was a renowned mathematician. He made groundbreaking contributions to fractal geometry, proposing the theory of fractals, which has been widely applied in various fields such as physics, biology, and economics. more

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“I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.”