mandelbrot_&_julia

Mandelbrot was born on November 20^th, 1924 in Warsaw, Poland. He was very knowledgeable in school and his whole family was expected to become scholars.

In 1936 Mandelbrot and his family moved to Paris where he went to Lycee, or secondary school. When World War II broke out, he moved to south of Tulle where he attended Lycee in Clermont-Ferrand.

When Paris was freed in 1944, Mandelbrot took the exams of both the Ecole Normale but after a few days he moved to Polytechinique. His wishes where to be the first to find order where everyone else have ever only seen chaos in their life such as the coastline of Great Britain. In 1947 he graduated from Ploytechnique. He had French and American study in the United States.

In California he earned the titles Master of Science and Professional Engineer in Aeronautics in 1949. In France he spent a year in the Air Force, then got his doctoral thesis, or the highest degree in college at the University of Paris. In December of 1952 he was awarded a Doctorat d`Etat `es Sciences Math`ematiques. His thesis title was Games of Communication. This was what he mastered in and he received the degree.

When Mandelbrot returned to France, he married Aliette and soon after had two children in 1955. Due to the new family they needed a bigger house so they moved to Geneva.

He next made the most vital parts of physical science. And finally he “was back to geometry after years of the wilderness.

In 1967 Mandelbrot asked the question. “How long is the coast of Britain”. The most normal answer was, “It all depends”. But he sometimes was able to show the rigid lines of a coastline can be measured using fractal dimensions.

Mandelbrot quoted “I conceived, developed, and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes. It got older without a name until 1975, when he found a new name for it,fractal geometry.

While the proceeding the Royal Society in 1989 Mandelbrot said that fractal geometry as a “workable middle ground between the excessive geometric order of Euclid and the geometric chaos of general mathematics.”

He was a doctor at the university of Syracuse (1986), Laurentian university (1986) Boston university (1987) SUNY at Albany (1988) university of Bremen , Germany (1988) Pace university (1988) and the university of Guelph (1989).

Mandelbrot became a scholar at Rockefeller Foundation(1953). He received an outstanding discovery award and a associate award (1983-84). Mandelbrot was recognized

by the Honda company “for giving to the corporation of a harmony between mathematics and science.

Anybody who knows about fractals, geometry, and especially Mandelbrot, is also familiar with Julia. Both of these people are very alike in many ways. Julia was born February 3^rd, 1893 in Sidi Bel Abbe`s, Algeria, then a northern Africa.

When Julia was little he was forced to go to war. While he was in combat, he was severely wounded and lost his nose. The doctors and surgeons couldn't help and he had to wear a leather strap for the rest of his life.

During his hard times, Julia continued his researches in Math, and after the war, he became a great mathematician. In 1918, at the age of 25, he published a 199 page article in the Journal de Mathematic Pure et Appilque`. He also became famous throughout most of his math days.

After that sudden fame, his work was almost forgotten until Mandelbrot brought it back to the front of peoples minds with his own work that became known as fractal geometry.