Yale "Father of Fractals" to be awarded prestigious prize in Japan.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-18 December 2002-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale "Father of Fractals" to be awarded prestigious prize in Japan(C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12182002 New Haven, Conn. -- Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, has been awarded the very prestigious Japan Prize by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan.

The international prize recognizes "original and outstanding achievements that contribute to the progress of science and technology and the promotion of peace and prosperity of mankind." Mandelbrot is known internationally as the "father of fractals," and, in 1993, the Wolf Prize for Physics cited him for "having changed our view of nature." Michael Berry, the Bristol physicist, wrote,...