Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath. He was one of the first to use computer graphics to create and display fractal geometric images. His autobiography, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick, was published posthumously in 2012.

About Benoit Mandelbrot in brief

Summary Benoit MandelbrotBenoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath. He was one of the first to use computer graphics to create and display fractal geometric images. He showed how visual complexity can be created from simple rules. His research included contributions to statistical physics, meteorology, hydrology, geomorphology, anatomy, taxonomy, neurology, linguistics, information technology, computer graphics, geology, medicine, physical cosmology, engineering, chaos theory, econophysics, metallurgy, and the social sciences. His autobiography, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick, was published posthumously in 2012. He died of a heart attack at the age of 69. He is buried in the Paris suburb of Chateau-Drouot, near his family’s former home in Tulle, France. He had dual French and American citizenship, having spent most of his career in both the United States and France. 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. Toward the end of his. career, he was Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University. He received over 15 honorary doctorates and served on many science journals, along with winning numerous awards.

He also won numerous awards for his work in the field of fractal geometry, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986. He wrote a book about his research, The fractalist: A Memoir Of A Scientific Maverik, published in 2012 by Simon & Schuster, with a foreword written by his wife, Anne-Marie Poirier. For more information, visit: www.thefractalist.com/book/The-fractal-maverick-by-Benoit-B. Mandelbrot-A-Memoir-of-a-Scientist-Amitai-The Fractalist-The-Art of roughness-and-Self-similarity-in-Nature-in Nature in-Natural-Phenomenon and The Fractal-Maverick The Art of Roughness-And-Self Similarity-In-Nature 2.0-1.html. For confidential support call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch, see www.samaritans.org for details. In the U.S. call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 or visit http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/. For confidential help in the UK, call the. Samaritanson.org on 08457 909090 or visit the Samaritans. For information on suicide prevention in the United Kingdom, visit the Samaritan’s Samaritans’ online Samaritans page. For details on suicide matters, visit www.samarsitans.com.