Mandelbrot in 2007 The Mandelbrot set , named after Benoît Mandelbrot, forms a fractal. Benoît B. Mandelbrot , a French-American mathematician and pioneer of fractal geometry, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday. Mandelbrot, aged 85, died of pancreatic cancer , according to a family statement. Mandelbrot was born to Lithuanian parents on November 20, 1924, in Warsaw . Mandelbrot and his family, who were Jewish, fled Nazi persecution in 1936, moving to France. He later studied at Paris' École Polytechnique and received a master's degree in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology . In 1952, Mandelbrot went back to Paris for a doctorate in mathematics, and worked with John von Neumann at Princeton , New Jersey's Institute for Advanced Study to earn a postdoctoral degree. He later described a series of complex shapes when studying the concept of roughness. Calling these shapes "fractals," he found that they were present in nature and applied his work to other fields, including finance, physics, and biology. In 1958, Mandelbrot began working for for I.B.M. at the company's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights , New York. In 1987, he began teaching at Yale University , later becoming Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences. Mandelbrot received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1993 and the Japan Prize in 2003, in addition to more than fifteen honorary degrees.
Mandelbrot in 2007 The , named after Benoît Mandelbrot, forms a fractal. , a French-American mathematician and pioneer of geometry, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday. Mandelbrot, aged 85, died of , according to a family statement. Mandelbrot was born to Lithuanian parents on November 20, 1924, in . Mandelbrot and his family, who were Jewish, fled persecution in 1936, moving to France. He later studied at Paris' and received a master's degree in aeronautics from the . In 1952, Mandelbrot went back to Paris for a doctorate in mathematics, and worked with at , New Jersey's to earn a postdoctoral degree. He later described a series of complex shapes when studying the concept of roughness. Calling these shapes "fractals," he found that they were present in nature and applied his work to other fields, including finance, physics, and biology. In 1958, Mandelbrot began working for for I.B.M. at the company's in , New York. In 1987, he began teaching at , later becoming Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences. Mandelbrot received the in 1993 and the in 2003, in addition to more than fifteen honorary degrees.
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