Benoit Mandelbrot papers, 1932-2010
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Notes, writings, correspondence, records, research reports and documentation, photographs, slides, calendars, audiovisual media, computer files, and publications relating to Mandelbrot's education and professional career and work in several organizations, principally at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and at Yale University.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Extent | circa 380 linear feet |
Place | California |
Publication date | 1932 - 2010 |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
Creator | Mandelbrot, Benoit B. |
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Subjects
Subject | Mandelbrot, Benoit B. |
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Bibliographic information
Note | Benoit Mandelbrot was born in 1924 in Warsaw, to a Lithuanian Jewish family, and died in 2010 at age 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance, and many other fields. |
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Note | Gift of Aliette Mandelbrot, 2011 and 2012. Accessions 2011-163, 2012-007, and 2012-016. |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sj775xm6965 |
Location | Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, 94305 |