Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Benoit Mandelbrot, a Polish mathematician and the namesake of the Mandelbrot set. Born on November 20, 1924, in Warsaw, Poland, Benoit ...

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Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot died last week at the age of 85. He is most well known as the father of fractal geometry, which deals with irregularly shaped objects, the likes of which are often ...

Benoit Mandelbrot , one of the world's most celebrated mathematicians, believes that our understanding of the stock market is as flawed as medieval astronomy. But the 77-year-old mathematician thinks ...

When Benoit Mandelbrot first discovered he had a gift for mathematics, he says it was like “a curtain opening.” He would go on to become the father of fractals, the hidden patterns of nature that have ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born, French and American mathematician, known as the "father of fractal geometry," is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been his 96th birthday.

What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common? Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that was compelling in ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --Google is celebrating mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot with a new Doodle on Friday, on what would have been his 96th birthday. Mandelbrot is known as the father of fractal geometry. His ...