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Also Known As Michal Kazimierz Heller
Born March 12, 1936 (age 88) • Tarnów • Poland
Awards And Honors Templeton Prize (2008)

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Sir Hermann Bondi
British scientist
Edward Arthur Milne
British astrophysicist
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
pope
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Stanislaw Ulam
American scientist
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician
Mandelbrot setDuring the late 20th century, Polish mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot helped popularize the fractal that bears his name. The fundamental set contains all complex numbers C such that the iterative equation Zn + 1 = Zn2 + C stays finite for all n starting with Z0 = 0. As shown here, the set of points that remain finite through all iterations is white, with darker colours showing how quickly other values diverge to infinity. The fractal edge between points that remain finite and those that diverge to infinity is extremely complicated, with self-repeating features that can be seen at all scales.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born French American mathematician
Sierpiński gasketPolish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński described the fractal that bears his name in 1915, although the design as an art motif dates at least to 13th-century Italy. Begin with a solid equilateral triangle, and remove the triangle formed by connecting the midpoints of each side. The midpoints of the sides of the resulting three internal triangles are connected to form three new triangles that are then removed to form nine smaller internal triangles. The process of cutting away triangular pieces continues indefinitely, producing a region with a Hausdorf dimension of a bit more than 1.5 (indicating that it is more than a one-dimensional figure but less than a two-dimensional figure).
Wacław Sierpiński
Polish mathematician
Jacob Bronowski
British mathematician
Li Zhizao
Chinese mathematician and astronomer
Neyman, Jerzy
Jerzy Neyman
Polish mathematician and statistician
Antoni Zygmund
American mathematician
Thomas Bradwardine
archbishop of Canterbury
Alfred Tarski
American mathematician and logician
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Teresa
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