An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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Birth: | 20th November, 1924 |
Death: | 14th October, 2010 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Mathematician |
Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born, French and American mathematician, noted for developing a "theory of roughness" in nature and the field of fractal geometry to help prove it, which included coining the word "fractal". He later discovered the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes, named in his honor.
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