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Benoit Mandelbrot
     n : French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing
         fractals (born in 1924) [syn: {Mandelbrot}]

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Benoit Mandelbrot
     
         /ben'wa man'dl-bro/ Benoit B. Mandelbrot.  The {IBM}
        scientist who wrote several original books on {fractals} and
        gave his name to the set he was discovered, the {Mandelbrot
        set} and coined the term "fractal" in 1975 from the Latin
        fractus or "to break".
     
        (1997-07-02)