Saturday, October 16, 2010

Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.

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Check out Skytopia's website for 3D Mandelbrot fractals.

3 comments:

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Anonymous said...

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Bassam Abdul-Baki said...

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