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Mandelbrot

man·delb·rot

uncommon

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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