The Influence of Benoît B. Mandelbrot on Mathematics
- Barnsley, Michael F.
- Frame, Michael
- Howe, Roger
- Stewart, Ian
- Mumford, David
- Furstenberg, Hillel
- Falconer, Kenneth
- West, Bruce J.
- Coppens, Marc-Olivier
- Cohen, Nathan
- Jaffard, Stéphane
- Berry, Michael
Publication date
December 2015
DOI Publisher
American Mathematical Society (AMS) ISSN
0002-9920 Journal
Notices of the American Mathematical Society Citation count (estimate)
5Abstract
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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