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Benoit Mandelbrot

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Benoit Mandelbrot

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Also known as Mandelbrot, B. B.‏, Benoît Mandelbrot, Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)

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Benoît Mandelbrot was a mathematician born on 20 November 1924 and died on 14 October 2010. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His notable works include *Contribution a la theorie mathematique des communications*, *Fractals and scaling in finance*, *The fractal geometry of nature*, *An eye for fractals*, and *Thinking in Patterns*. He authored 19 works and had an Erdős number of 3.

Mandelbrot is associated with the concept of fractals, described as "a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales." He stated that "Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce," and wrote about "How Long Is the Coast of Britain?". His work is referenced by 605 other encyclopedia articles. He maintained an official website at users.math.yale.edu.

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Person · Open Library

Born
20 November 1924
Died
14 October 2010
Works
19

Top works

  • Contribution a la theorie mathematique des communications
  • Fractals and scaling in finance
  • The fractal geometry of nature
  • An eye for fractals
  • Thinking in Patterns

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Germany
Active from
1994

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
537
Total plays
631

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. <i>Planck</i>2015 results

    · 2016 · cited 9,871x

  2. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,795x

  3. AMPK and mTOR regulate autophagy through direct phosphorylation of Ulk1

    · 2011 · cited 6,436x

  4. Fractional Brownian Motions, Fractional Noises and Applications

    · 1968 · cited 6,001x

  5. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    · 2017 · cited 5,582x

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Quotes

  • “How Long Is the Coast of Britain?”
  • “Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.”
  • “A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...”
  • “I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid — a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry — Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity … The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”
  • “Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines”
  • “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.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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. He spent most of his career in both the United States and France, having dual French and American citizenship. In 1958, he began a 35-year career at IBM, where he became an IBM Fellow, and periodically took leaves of absence to teach at Harvard University. At Harvard, following the publication of his study of U.S. commodity markets in relation to cotton futures, he taught economics and applied sciences.

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