Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of phys
Mandelbrot at a TED conference in 2010
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Mandelbrot speaking about the Mandelbrot set, during his acceptance speech for the Légion d'honneur in 2006
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Paul Lévy (mathematician)
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Paul Pierre Lévy was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lév
Benoit Mandelbrot
…Lycée du Parc in Lyon, and in 1945 to 1947 attended the prestigious École Polytechnique, where he studied under French mathematicians Gaston Julia and Paul Lévy. From 1947 to 1949 he studied at California Institute of Technology, where he earned a master's degree in aeronautics. Returning to France, he obtained…
Paul Pierre Lévy