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Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924) is a Polish-born French mathematician and leading proponent of fractal geometry.
Born in Warsaw, Mandelbrot lived in France from the age of 12 to the end of his college studies. He was born into a family with a strong academic tradition - his mother was a medical doctor and his uncle, Szolem Mandelbrojt, was a famous Parisian mathematician. His father, however, made his living buying and selling clothes. His family left Poland for Paris in 1936. There, Benoît was introduced to mathematics by his two uncles.
Mandelbrot attended the Lycée Rolin in Paris until the start of World War II, when his family moved to Tulle. In 1944 he returned to Paris to attend the École Polytechnique, where he studied under Gaston JuliaGaston Maurice Julia ( February 3, 1893 March 19, 1978) was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularised by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, and the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are closely related. and Paul Lévy. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1947Events January January 1 British mines nationalized January 1 Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time. January 10 United Na, and spent two years at the California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology MottoThe truth shall make you free Established 1891 School type Private President David Baltimore Location Pasadena, CA, USA Enrollment 900 undergraduate,1,200 graduate Faculty 386 Endowment US$1. 3 billion Campus Urban, where he studied aeronautics. Back in France, he studied for a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences at the University of ParisThe University of Paris ( French: Universite de Paris was founded in 1150 and was known as the Sorbonne. Following the events of May 1968, the University of Paris was split in 1970 into a number of administratively separate universities, in an attempt to, graduating in 1952Summary of notable events in 1952 . Events January events January 8 West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada..
From 19491949 is the common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 4 RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage January 4 February 22 Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, to 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t Mandelbrot was a staff member at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. During this time he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where he was sponsored by John von Neumann. In 1955 he married Aliette Kagan and moved to Geneva.
In 1958 the couple moved to the United States where Mandelbrot joined the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre in Yorktown Heights, New York State. He remained at IBM for the rest of his working life, becoming an IBM Fellow, and later Fellow Emeritus.