| benoit mandelbrot | |
noun | |
| French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924) [syn: Mandelbrot] |
Benoit Mandelbrot person
/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".
(1997-07-02)
Mandelbrot, Benoit
Benoit Mandelbrot