MANDELBROT, Benoit B.

MANDELBROT, Benoit B. American (born Poland), b. 1924. Genres: Economics, Mathematics/Statistics, Physics, Sciences, Autobiography/ Memoirs. Career: Mathematician. Philips Electronics, Paris, France, mathematician, 1950-53; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, junior member and Rockefeller scholar, 1953-54; University of Geneva, Switzerland, junior professor of math, 1955-57; University of Lille, France, junior professor of math, 1957-58; Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, junior professor of math, 1957-58; IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, member of research staff, 1958-74, IBM fellow, 1974-93, IBM fellow emeritus, 1993-; Yale University, New Haven, CT, visiting professor of engineering, 1970, Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematical Sciences, 1987-99, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, 1999-; Academie des Sciences, Paris, professor, 1995. Harvard University, visiting professor, 1962-64, 1979-80, professor, 1984-87; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, visiting professor, 1970; University of California at Berkeley, Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Professor, 1992. Visitor and institute lecturer at universities in the US and France. Lecturer at universities worldwide. Publications: Logique, langage et theorie de l'information, 1957; Les objets fractals: forme, hasard et dimension, c.1976, 4th ed., 1995, in US as Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension, 1977; The Fractal Geometry of Nature, 1982; (with C.H. Scholz) Fractals in Geophysics, 1989; Fractals and Scaling in Finance, 1997; Multifractals and 1/f Noise, 1999; Gaussian Self-Affinity and Fractals, 2002; (with M.L. Frame) Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education, 2002; Fractals and Chance, 2004. Contributor to professional journals. Address: Dept of Math, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]