Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Benoit B. Mandelbrot >The Polish-born French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot (born 1924.11.20) was the inventor of fractals. 
Fractal geometry has been described as one of the major developments of 20th-century mathematics.

https://users.math.yale.edu/mandelbrot/

Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences
Mathematics Department - Yale University

IBM Fellow Emeritus T.J. Watson Research Center
International Business Machines Corporation

Seeks a measure of order in physical, mathematical or social phenomena that are characterized by abundant data but extreme sample 
variability. The surprising esthetic value of many of his discoveries and their unexpected usefulness in teaching have made him
an eloquent spokesman for the "unity of knowing and feeling."

Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay8OMOsf6AQ
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
YouTube · TED, Jul 7, 2010