benoit mandelbrot

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benoit mandelbrot - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Benoit Mandelbrot
      n 1: French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing
           fractals (born in 1924) [syn: Mandelbrot, Benoit Mandelbrot
           ]

benoit mandelbrot - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  Benoit B. Mandelbrot
  Mandelbrot, Benoit
  
     <person> /ben'wa man'dl-bro/ Benoit B. Mandelbrot.  The IBM
     scientist who wrote several original books on fractals and
     gave his name to the set he was discovered, the Mandelbrot set
      and coined the term "fractal" in 1975 from the Latin
     fractus or "to break".
  
     (1997-07-02)