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The Influence of Benoît B. Mandelbrot on Mathematics

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2012-10

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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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Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Fractals, Form, Chance, Dimension, Science, Nature

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/15618

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ANU Research Publications

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Notices of the American Mathematical Society

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Journal article

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10.1090/noti894

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