Sunday, October 17, 2010

Sad news ...

... Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Dave also sends along: Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85.

(Bumped.)

2 comments:

  1. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that his ideas changed my life. I am more affected by this death than many others, but I also remember all of his achievements. There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but if there were, it surely would have gone to Mandelbrot.

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