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Benoît B. Mandelbrot
FollowBorn 20 November 1924 in Warsaw, Poland
Died 14 October 2010 (aged 85)
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 physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life".