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Benoit B. Mandelbrot [a] [b] (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".
Mandelbrot may refer to: Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), a mathematician associated with fractal geometry; Mandelbrot set, a fractal popularized by Benoit Mandelbrot; Mandelbrot Competition, a mathematics competition; Mandelbrot (cookie), dessert associated with Eastern European Jews; Szolem Mandelbrojt, a Polish-French mathematician
The Fractal Geometry of Nature is a revised and enlarged version of his 1977 book entitled Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension, which in turn was a revised, enlarged, and translated version of his 1975 French book, Les Objets Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension.
The term "Lévy flight" was coined after Paul Lévy by Benoît Mandelbrot, [3] who used this for one specific definition of the distribution of step sizes. He used the term Cauchy flight for the case where the distribution of step sizes is a Cauchy distribution , [ 4 ] and Rayleigh flight for when the distribution is a normal distribution [ 5 ...
The Jonathan Coulton song "Mandelbrot Set" is a tribute to both the fractal itself and to the man it is named after, Benoit Mandelbrot. [ 46 ] Blue Man Group 's 1999 debut album Audio references the Mandelbrot set in the titles of the songs "Opening Mandelbrot", "Mandelgroove", and "Klein Mandelbrot". [ 47 ]
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Polish-born mathematician [56] Olinde Rodrigues (1795–1851), mathematician and social reformer [57] Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002), mathematician [58] André Weil (1906–1998), mathematician and leader in the Bourbaki group [59]
In 1963, Benoit Mandelbrot first used the stable (or -stable) distribution to model the empirical distributions which have the skewness and heavy-tail property. Since α {\displaystyle \alpha } -stable distributions have infinite p {\displaystyle p} -th moments for all p > α {\displaystyle p>\alpha } , the tempered stable processes have been ...
Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, born in Warsaw, growing up in Poland then France, was aware of the Statist rule of thumb, and was also a colleague of de Sola Pool, Kochen and Milgram at the University of Paris during the early 1950s. (Kochen brought Mandelbrot to work at the Institute for Advanced Study and later IBM in the U.S.)