biography
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| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and at the California Institute of Technology, then became professor of mathematics at Geneva (1955–7) and the Ecole Polytechnique (1957–8). He joined IBM in 1958, and became professor of mathematics at Yale in 1987. A central figure in the development of fractals, his book The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982) was important in demonstrating the potential application of fractals to natural phenomena. His name is applied to a particular set of complex numbers which generate one type of fractal (the Mandelbrot set), whose visually attractive properties have captured public interest since the 1980s. |
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