Benoît Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry. He showed how fractals can occur in many different places in both mathematics and elsewhere in nature. He was born in Warsaw on 20 November 1924 and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 14 October 2010. He coined the term fractal in 1975, the Mandelbrot set is named for him, and he is a central figure in the modern study of self-similar shapes and irregular curves.
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Born 20 November 1924 Warsaw, Poland
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Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in Fractal Geometry. He showed how Fractals can occur in many different places in both Mathematics and elsewhere in Nature.
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It was introduced by Mandelbrot & van Ness (1968).
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Discovered by Benoît Mandelbrot, the first print-out of it was in black and white.
Mandelbrot Set (Wikipedia)
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Afterwards, in 1980, Benoit Mandelbrot obtained high-quality visualizations of the set while working at IBM's Thomas J.
Fractal (Wikipedia)
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The term "fractal" was coined by the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975
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