Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)

Benoit Mandelbrot

French-American mathematician (1924–2010)

Benoit B. Mandelbrot 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…