− | Toward the end of his career, he was [[Sterling Professor]] of Mathematical Sciences at [[Yale University]], where he was the oldest professor in Yale's history to receive tenure.<ref>{{cite web |author=Steve Olson |url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_11/mandelbrot.html |title=The Genius of the Unpredictable |publisher=Yale Alumni Magazine |date=November–December 2004 |access-date=22 July 2014 |author-link=Steve Olson (writer) |archive-date=22 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022092605/http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_11/mandelbrot.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Mandelbrot also held positions at the [[Pacific Northwest National Laboratory]], [[Université Lille Nord de France]], [[Institute for Advanced Study]] and [[Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]]. During his career, he received over 15 honorary doctorates and served on many science journals, along with winning numerous awards. His autobiography, ''The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick'', was published posthumously in 2012.
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− | Mandelbrot was born in a [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] family, in [[Warsaw]] during the [[Second Polish Republic]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hoffman|first=Jascha|date=2010-10-16|title=Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85 (Published 2010)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html|access-date=2020-11-20|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=21 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121082521/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His father made his living trading clothing; his mother was a dental surgeon. During his first two school years, he was tutored privately by an uncle who despised [[rote learning]]: "Most of my time was spent playing chess, reading maps and learning how to open my eyes to everything around me."<ref name="wolf">{{cite web |last=Mandelbrot |first=Benoît |title=The Wolf Prizes for Physics, ''A Maverick's Apprenticeship'' |publisher=Imperial College Press |year=2002 |url=http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/mavericksApprenticeship.pdf |access-date=23 April 2012 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203024639/http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/mavericksApprenticeship.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1936, when he was 11, the family emigrated from Poland to France. The move, the [[World War II|war]], and his acquaintance with his father's brother, the mathematician [[Szolem Mandelbrojt]] (who had moved to Paris around 1920), further prevented a standard education. "The fact that my parents, as economic and political refugees, joined Szolem in France saved our lives," he writes.<ref name=Mandelbrot />{{rp|17}}<ref name="bbc_obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101|title=BBC News – 'Fractal' mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies aged 85|date=17 October 2010|work=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=17 October 2010|archive-date=18 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018045143/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101|url-status=live}}</ref> | + | Mandelbrot was born in a [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] family, in [[Warsaw]] during the [[Second Polish Republic]].His father made his living trading clothing; his mother was a dental surgeon. During his first two school years, he was tutored privately by an uncle who despised [[rote learning]]: "Most of my time was spent playing chess, reading maps and learning how to open my eyes to everything around me." In 1936, when he was 11, the family emigrated from Poland to France. The move, the [[World War II|war]], and his acquaintance with his father's brother, the mathematician [[Szolem Mandelbrojt]] (who had moved to Paris around 1920), further prevented a standard education. "The fact that my parents, as economic and political refugees, joined Szolem in France saved our lives," he writes. |
− | 曼德布洛特出生于波兰第二共和国时期,华沙的一个立陶宛犹太家庭。父亲以服装贸易为生,母亲是一名牙科医生。他入学后的前两年,一直由他叔叔私下辅导,这位叔叔尤其鄙视死记硬背的学习方法:“我的大部分时间都花在下棋,阅读地图和学习如何打开我的视角观察周围的一切。”后来1936年,他11岁时,一家人从波兰移民到了法国。这次移民,战争,和他父亲兄弟Szolem Mandelbrojt(数学家斯佐勒姆·曼德尔贝罗亚特,1920年左右移居巴黎)的接触,更进一步阻碍了他受到规范的教育。他曾写道:“我的父母作为经济和政治难民,在法国投靠了佐勒姆,因此而挽救了我们的生命。”
| + | 曼德布洛特出生于波兰第二共和国时期<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hoffman|first=Jascha|date=2010-10-16|title=Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85 (Published 2010)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html|access-date=2020-11-20|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=21 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121082521/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ,华沙的一个立陶宛犹太家庭。父亲以服装贸易为生,母亲是一名牙科医生。他入学后的前两年,一直由他叔叔私下辅导,这位叔叔尤其鄙视死记硬背的学习方法:“我的大部分时间都花在下棋,阅读地图和学习如何打开我的视角观察周围的一切。<ref name="wolf">{{cite web |last=Mandelbrot |first=Benoît |title=The Wolf Prizes for Physics, ''A Maverick's Apprenticeship'' |publisher=Imperial College Press |year=2002 |url=http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/mavericksApprenticeship.pdf |access-date=23 April 2012 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203024639/http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/mavericksApprenticeship.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>”后来1936年,他11岁时,一家人从波兰移民到了法国。这次移民,战争,和他父亲兄弟Szolem Mandelbrojt(数学家斯佐勒姆·曼德尔贝罗亚特,1920年左右移居巴黎)的接触,更进一步阻碍了他受到规范的教育。他曾写道:“我的父母作为经济和政治难民,在法国投靠了佐勒姆,因此而挽救了我们的生命。”<ref name=Mandelbrot />{{rp|17}}<ref name="bbc_obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101|title=BBC News – 'Fractal' mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies aged 85|date=17 October 2010|work=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=17 October 2010|archive-date=18 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018045143/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101|url-status=live}}</ref> |