Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

Mathematician and Father of Fractal Geometry                          

Selected Works:

Multifractals and 1/f Noise: Wild Self-Affinity in Physics - 1963-1976 by Benoît B Mandelbrot 

Les objets fractals: Forme, hasard et dimension - Nouvelle bibliotheque scientifique by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 1975 - 4 editions

Gli oggetti frattali - 1975

Fractals: Form, chance, and dimension by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 1977
 
The Fractal Geometry of Nature - 1982

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
by Evelyn Fox Keller, Benoît B Mandelbrot - 1983

Fractal Aspects of Materials: Disordered Systems - Extended Abstracts, No Ea-13 by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 1987

The Science of Fractal Images by Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Editor - Michael F Barnsley, Contributor - Robert L Devaney, Contributor - Benoît B Mandelbrot, Contributor - Richard F Voss, Contributor - Dietmar Saupe, Editor - 1988

Fractal Landscapes by Bill Hirst, Benoît B Mandelbrot - 1994

Fractal Landscapes from the Real World by Benoît B Mandelbrot, Bill Hirst, Photographer - 1995
 
Fractals and Scaling In Finance- 1997 - 3 editions

Fractals: An Animated Discussion - Video Tape by Benoît B Mandelbrot, Edward Lorenz - 1997

Gli oggetti frattali by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 2000
 
Gaussian Self-Affinity and Fractals by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 2001

Gaussian Self-Affinity and Fractals: Globality, The Earth, 1/f Noise, and R/S by Benoît B Mandelbrot, FJ Damerau, Assistant - M Frame, Assistant - K McCamy, Assistant - JW Van Ness, Assistant - JR Wallis, Assistant - 2001

Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education - Mathematical Association of America Notes by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 2002

La Geometria Fractal De La Naturaleza by Benoît B Mandelbrot, Josep Llosa, Translator - 2002

Fraktály by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 2003
 
Fractals and Chaos: The Mandelbrot Set and Beyond - 2004 - 3 editions

The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoît B Mandelbrot, Richard L Hudson - 2004 - 8 editions

Fractal Geometry And Applications: A Jubilee Of Benoit Mandelbrot : Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Analysis, Number Theory, and Dynamical systems by Machiel Van Frankenhuysen, Benoît B Mandelbrot, Michel L Lapidus - 2004

Fraktale und Finanzen Märkte zwischen Risiko, Rendite und Ruin
by Benoît B Mandelbrot, Richard L Hudson - 2005 — 2 editions

Nel mondo dei frattali by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 20Fractales y finanzas : una aproximación matemática a los mercados : arriesgar, perder y ganar by Richard L Hudson, Benoît B Mandelbrot, Ambrosio García Leal, Illustrator - 2006

Fractales, hasard et finance by Benoît B Mandelbrot - 2009

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Geometer by Benoît B Mandelbrot - expected publication 2011.

                          

Awards:

Wolf Prize - 1993
Japan Prize - 2003
The Franklin Medal
Légion d'honneur - Legion of Honour                          

The Mandelbrot set is a particular mathematical set of points, whose boundary generates a distinctive and easily recognisable two-dimensional fractal shape. The set is closely related to the Julia set (which generates similarly complex shapes), and is named after the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, who studied and popularized it.

Moved to France with his family when he was a child, acquired dual French and American citizenship.

Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Emeritus at Yale University
IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.