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| | Mandelbrot receives multiple honors in Poland and Italy |
 | | New Haven, Conn. -- Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus, at Yale University has been named the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Sierpinski Prize, awarded jointly since 1974 by the Polish Mathematical Society and the University of Warsaw. |
 | | On the way to Warsaw, Mandelbrot lectured at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, which granted him the first medal named after an early Sierpinski medalist, the great Polish mathematician Wladislaw Orlicz. |
 | | Earlier this year, Mandelbrot was awarded the honor of Doctor in Civil Engineering by the Technical University (Politecnico) in Torino, Italy, at the International Congress on Fracture. |
| www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-08/yu-mrm080805.php (297 words) |
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