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Born March 30, 1892 • Kraków • Austria-Hungary
Died August 31, 1945 (aged 53)
Subjects Of Study Banach space
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard.
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard
French mathematician
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician
Vaughan Jones
Vaughan Jones
New Zealand mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Jean Dieudonné
French mathematician
Frigyes Riesz
Hungarian mathematician
Timothy Gowers
British mathematician
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Stanislaw Ulam
American scientist
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
Michał Heller
Michał Heller
Polish priest and mathematical cosmologist
Neyman, Jerzy
Jerzy Neyman
Polish mathematician and statistician
Antoni Zygmund
American mathematician
Alfred Tarski
American mathematician and logician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician

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