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Benoit Mandelbrot
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Warsaw, Poland
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
He showed how Fractals can occur in many different places in both Mathematics and elsewhere in Nature.
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Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry.Benoit mandelbrot biography parents
He showed how fractals can occur in many different places in both mathematics and elsewhere in nature.
Mandelbrot was born in Poland in 1924 into a family with a very academic tradition. His father, however, made his living buying and selling clothes while his mother was a doctor.
As a young boy, Mandelbrot was introduced to mathematics by his two uncles.
Mandelbrot's family emigrated to France in 1936 and his uncle Szolem Mandelbrojt, who was Professor of Mathematics at the Collège de France and the successor of Hadamard in this post, took resp