Benoît Mandelbrot, in Post-doctoral studies: Weiner and Von Neumann.
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Much later, I was to find that my view of Von Neumann as a great man was completely confirmed.
— Benoît Mandelbrot on John von Neumann
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About Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".
About Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".
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