Additional Perspectives on Fractals

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Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Benoit B. Mandelbrot is an IBM Fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In one sense he is the discoverer of fractals, the man who found examples of fractals scattered through the work of numerous predecessors in many different fields. In a more important sense he is the inventor of fractals, because the underlying theme that bound together the diverse examples lay unrecognized until he discerned it, named it, and brought it to general attention. The span of Mandelbrot's interests is best illustrated by listing some of the positions he has held: Visiting Professor of Economics, Applied Mathematics, and Mathematics at Harvard; of Engineering at Yale; of Physiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and of Mathematics at the University of Paris-Sud.