The Influence of Benoît B. Mandelbrot on Mathematics
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Barnsley, Michael F.
Frame, Michael
Howe, Roger
Stewart, Ian
Mumford, David
Furstenberg, Hillel
Falconer, Kenneth
West, Bruce J.
Coppens, Marc-Olivier
Cohen, Nathan
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American Mathematical Society
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We begin this article, which deals largely with
Benoît B. Mandelbrot’s contributions to and influence
upon mathematics, with a quotation from
the introduction to Fractals: Form, Chance, and
Dimension [16]. This essay, together with many
pictures and numerous lectures in the same vein,
changed the way science looks at nature and had
a significant impact on mathematics. It is easy for
us now to think that what he says is obvious; it
was not.
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Notices of the American Mathematical Society