Of course it stands for "Benoît B. Mandelbrot" and so as you zoom into his name closer and closer, you see the same structure repeating itself on different scales. His name has fractal geometry.

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the Yale professor who gave the world mathematical tools to describe such complex phenomena as clouds and the patterns of leaves on trees, died last week at the age of 85. The ...

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 ...

B enoit Mandelbrot, best known for his theories on fractal geometry, passed away on October 14. His best known theory, the Mandelbrot set, describes numbers where each successive value is a ...

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Benoît Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, died on October 14th, aged 85. Try for free. Enterprise. Log in Menu. ... Yet stand by the sea and watch the irregularity of its edge, ...

Mr Mandelbrot was born to Lithuanian-Jewish parents and was a local chess champion captivated by mathematics and geometry thanks to his father's map collection.