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Benoit Mandelbrot

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(person)Benoit Mandelbrot - /ben'wa man'dl-bro/ Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The IBM scientist who wrote several original books on fractals and gave his name to the set he was discovered, the Mandelbrot set and coined the term "fractal" in 1975 from the Latin fractus or "to break".


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So are the experimental psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, and Hyman Minsky, the expert on financial manias.
Since the mid 70''s, the theory of Fractal Geometry was developed by Benoit Mandelbrot who used the word "fractal" to describe irregularly-shaped objects in nature.
Benoit Mandelbrot is the father of modern day Fractal Geometry.
 
 
 
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