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Paola Antonelli is senior curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. Benoit Mandelbrot is the father of fractal geometry. (((And they're really chewing the fractal fat here:))) PA ...

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Nov. 20 (UPI) --Google is celebrating mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot with a new Doodle on Friday, on what would have been his 96th birthday. Mandelbrot is known as the father of fractal geometry. His ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born, French and American mathematician, known as the "father of fractal geometry," is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been his 96th birthday.