RIP Benoit Mandelbrot

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html

[LeviF]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html

Fractals

 

I always wonder how much work is lost when a mathematician dies. My friend's grandfather was a mathematician, and I was told that he destroyed all of the work that he thought he wouldn't finish when he was diagnosed with cancer.

[Nanker]

Mandlebrot and Mondrian.

M&Ms.