Benoit B Mandelbrot (1924 - 2010)

Born 20 Nov 1924 in Warsaw, Poland

Died 14 Oct 2010 at age 85 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Benoit Mandelbrot is Notable.

Benoit was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences. He referred to himself as a "fractalist".

Research Notes

Port of Arrival: New York, New York. Arrival Date 23May1953 Ethnicity/Nationality: French Port of Departure: Le Havre, France Ship Name: Liberte Birth Date: about 1925 Age: 28 ^[1]

Sources

• "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HDX-C1G : 16 March 2018), Benoit Mandelbrot, 1956; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WZXN-RQ6Z : 15 May 2020), Benoit B Mandelbrot in entry for Robert Q Davis, 1966.

• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJZ8-6ZDD : 23 May 2020), Benoit B Mandelbrot, 1997.

• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJRD-5B3Y : 16 May 2014), Benoit Mandelbrot, Residence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.

• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KPKC-YG2 : 23 November 2019), Benoit B Mandelbrot, 1993-2000.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGBT-5MV : 20 May 2014), Benoit B Mandelbrot, 14 Oct 2010; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• Obituary

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKGK-NKFP : accessed 21 July 2019), Dr Benoit B Mandelbrot, Washington DC, United States, 18 Oct 2010; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Washington Post, The, born-digital text.

See Also:

• Benoit Mandelbrot, 85; developed fractal geometry, Jascha Hoffman, New York Times. Reprinted in The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 18Oct2010, page B10.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20101019233754/http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Mandelbrot%2Bfather%2Bfractal%2Bgeometry%2Bdies/3682961/story.html

• A maverick's apprenticeship The Wolf Prizes for Physics, Imperial College Press, 2002 Benoit B. Mandelbrot (with personal notes on family)

• Google Doodle highlights

• Wikipedia: Benoit Mandelbrot

• Wikidata: Item Q101740, en:Wikipedia

• Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 Nov 1924–14 Oct 2010), Find A Grave: Memorial #154577154, citing Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by DWV (contributor 47789311) .

• Video about the Mandelbrot Set

1. ↑ ($) New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957. Ancestry.com, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls); Records of the U.S. Customs Service, R.