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Created page with "== Early Life and Education == Benoît B. Mandelbrot was born on November 20, 1924, in Warsaw, Poland, to a Lithuanian Jewish family. His father, a clothing wholesaler, and his mother, a dentist, moved the family to France in 1936 to escape the growing threat of anti-Semitism in Poland. Mandelbrot's early education was heavily influenced by his family's intellectual environment, which fostered his interest in mathematics. During World War II, the Mandelbrot family fled..."