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Benoit Mandelbrot

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q10855195&amp;oldid=2545581168" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Officer of the Legion of Honour · dated 1989
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q257&amp;oldid=2562080299" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mandelbrot set
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q37156&amp;oldid=2555843158" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IBM · from 1958 · to 1987
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q8484&amp;oldid=2548890252" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lycée du Parc · from 1944 · to 1944
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q45924&amp;oldid=2527579577" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IBM Fellow · dated 1958
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q114840248&amp;oldid=2247658507" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension

Wikidata describes Benoit Mandelbrot as Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010).

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