| Nationality: |
USA |
| Date of Birth: |
20 November 1924 |
| Academic Degrees: |
| 1947 |
Ingenieur diplome, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris |
| 1948 |
California Institute of Technology, Master of Science |
| 1949 |
California Institute of Technology, Professional Engineer in Aeronautics, |
| 1952 |
Faculte des Sciences de Paris, Docteur d'Etat es Sciences Mathematiques |
| Professional Career: |
| 1949-57 |
Staff member (Attache, then Charge, then Maitre de Recherches),
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France |
| 1957-58 |
Maitre de Conferences de Mathematiques Appliquees, Universite, Lille, France
Maitre de Conferences d'Analyse Mathematique, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France |
| 1958-74 |
Research Staff Member,
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY. |
| 1974-93 |
IBM Fellow, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| 1987-99 |
Abraham Robinson Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Sciences,
Yale University, New Haven, CT. |
| 1993-present |
IBM Fellow Emeritus, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| 1999-present |
Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences,
Mathematics Department: Yale University |
| Title: |
Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Department, Yale University IBM Fellow Emeritus, TJ Watson Research Center, International Business Machines Corporation |
| Major Books and Papers: |
- B.B.Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, W.H.Freeman and Company (NewYork),1982.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk, New York: Springer, 1997.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Multifractals and 1/f Noise : Wild Self-Affinity in Physics, New York: Springer, 1999.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Gaussian Self-Affinity & Fractals: Globality, the Earth, 1/f, & R/S, New York: Springer, 2002.
- M. L. Frame & B.B.Mandelbrot, Fractals, Graphics and Mathematical Education, Washington DC: Mathematical Association of America & Cambridge UK: The University Press, 2002.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, The variation of certain speculative prices. The Journal of Business of the University of Chicago: 36, 394-419. 1963.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Random walks, fire damage amount, and other Paretian riskphenomena, Operations Research 12, 582-585, 1964.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, How long is the coast of Britain? Statistical self-similarity and fractional dimension, Science 155, 636-638, 1967.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Some noises with 1/f spectrum, a bridge between direct current and white noise, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 13, 289-298, 1967.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, A population birth and mutation process, I: Explicit distribution for the number of mutants in an old culture of bacteria, Journal of Applied Probability 11, 437-444, 1974.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Intermittent turbulence in self-similar cascades; divergence of high moments and dimension of carrier, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 62, 331-358, 1974.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Stochastic models for the Earth's relief, the shape and the fractal dimension of the coastlines, and the number-area rule of islands, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 72, 3825-3828, 1975.
- B.B.Mandelbrot, Fractal aspects of the iteration of z →λ z (1-z) for complex λ and z, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 357, 249-259, 1980.
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| Major Awards, Prizes, and Medals Received: |
- Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science "Magna est Veritas:" (1985)
- Franklin Medal for Signal and Eminent Service in Science (1986)
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz Medal (1988)
- Alumni Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Achievement; Caltech (1988)
- Senior Award (Humboldt Preis) (1988)
- "Science for Art" Prize (1988)
- Harvey Prize for Science and Technology (1989)
- Nevada Prize (1991)
- Wolf Foundation Prize for Physics (1993)
- Honda Prize (1994)
- Medaille de Vermeil: de la ville de Paris (1996)
- John Scott Award (1999)
- Lewis Fry Richardson Medal (1999)
- William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement: Sigma Xi (2002)
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| Academies |
- Foreign Associate, then Member, USA National Academy of Sciences
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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| Memberships in Scientific Societies: |
- Member (honorary), Societe Physique de France.
- Fellow, American Physical Society.
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Member, American Mathematical Society.
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