Mathematician:Benoît B. Mandelbrot

French-American mathematician of Polish origin famous for his work on fractals.

The Mandelbrot set is named for him. The middle B in his name was chosen by him. It doesn't stand for anything.

Nationality
Polish, later French-American

History

 * Born: 20 Nov 1924, Warsaw, Poland
 * Died: 14 Oct 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Mandelbrot Set
 * Mandelbrot Competition

Books

 * 1967: How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension
 * 1977: Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension
 * 1982: The Fractal Geometry of Nature (revised and enlarged version of Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension)