benoit mandelbrot

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)