BENOIT MANDELBROT

CHILDHOOD

• Benoit was born in warsaw, polland on november 20, 1924
• He was raised there too and also lived in france
• Benoit's father traded clothing and his mom was a dental surgeon
• His uncle Szolem Mandelbrot introduced benoit to mathmatics
• He had two sons Didier and Laurent Mandelbrot with his wife Aliette Kagan

EDUCATION

• In Benoits younger years he went to an average school in Polland
• When he was older he liked to travel he attended many universities in US and Polland and a masters degree in Aeronautics from Caltech
• Contributed one of the biggest mathmatical discoveries ever
• His gift atracted attention everywhere in college
• Eventually became a professor for yale university

ACCOMPLISHMENT

• Most interesting thing benoit has done is proboly discovering fractals
• Fractals are geometry of nature
• It is trying to define the shape and degree of things like coast lines, mountains, and clouds
• He was also one of the first people to work with computer graphics
• Worked for IBM for 35 years

HISTORICAL RELAVENCE

• Benoit was born in the roaring 20's
• He was a teen during the great depression
• And he was in his early 20's when ww2 started

ADDITIONAL INFO

• He died october14, 2010
• He had an autobiography called The Fractalist
• The book was published in 2012
• Also know for the chaos theory

BIBLEOGRAPHY

• Www-history.mcs.com
• User.math.yale.com
• Www.ted.com
• The gaurdin.com
• fractals googols and other mathmatical tales by:Theoni Pappas

Fractals

• fractals are never ending shapes that keep duplicating themselves.
• like seen in the back ground it is one big shape made up of smaller version
• fractals are natures geometry