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".