Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Born

November 20, 1924

Died

October 14, 2010 (85 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Warsaw, Poland

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".