Mandelbrot
man·delb·rot
noun
1.
French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924)
Origin
Spelling probably derived from German Mandelbrot. Compare Yiddish מאַנדלבראָט (mandlbrot, “almond bread”), which may have semantically influenced the English term.
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