Beno�t Mandelbrot (11 20. 1924 - 14. 10. 2010) - The legendary mathematician and economist, founder of the theory of fractal geometry, which he defined in 1975 in the USA.

A brilliant mathematician

Beno�t Mandelbrot was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw. When he was twelve years old, leaving the family in fear of incoming German Nazism and anti-Semitism spreading in Poland and settled in Paris. After World War II he graduated from high school in France and the USA. There then thirty-five years he worked at IBM (since 1958), thus he was the first to use computer graphics for creating geometric images. In 1975, defined the theory of fractals, fractal with the word was first used (took it from the Latin word fractus - broken). Thus, they are called irregular geometric shapes divisible into smaller parts of the same shape. Thus, a set of similar or identical motifs, which make up the base theme. Mathematical fractals are strictly self-similarity, unlike natural. Examples of natural fractal snowflake is necessary.

Beno�t Mandelbrot in the end of his career he worked at Yale University, where in 2005 he retired. He died at eighty-five years in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.