Benoit Mandelbrot (1924– ) is a French-American mathematician. He has studied geometric and physical structures, to which he gave the name fractals, that are self-similar at different scales. Fractal concepts have found application to many disciplines, from cardiology to the analysis of stock-market prices. (M 43763) _ _.
Discovered on 12-4-2000 in Prescott by Comba, P. G.