Benoit Mandelbrot
Summary
- 1924 - 2010
- French-American mathematician and polymath
Details
- he was interested in 'teh art of roughness' which led to his study of fractals
- he coined the word 'fractal' and developed a theory of roughness and self-similarity in nature.
References
Quotes
- "Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals."