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“Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.”

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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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