Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, a polymath of Polish and French descent, with American nationality, showcased an extraordinary breadth of intellectual curiosity, manifesting a profound and abiding interest in the applied sciences, with a distinctive emphasis on the intricate and complex aspects of physical phenomena, which he affectionately referred to as "the art of roughness", a term that aptly captured the essence of his groundbreaking work in the field of chaos theory and fractal geometry.