Mathematician, and father of fractal geometry, who described the roughness of nature.
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Gomory, R. Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010). Nature 468, 378 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468378a
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Dilip G. Banhatti
There are many books on Fractals apart from Mandelbrot's original final one of 1982. One I remember is from 1985 by K J Falconer. It's semirigorous, a textbook with exercises at ends of chapters, if I remember right.