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Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP

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Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, has passed away. He died on October 14th of pancreatic cancer. He was 85.


“I decided to go into fields where mathematicians would never go because the problems were badly stated ... I have played a strange role that none of my students dare to take.”
-- Benoit Mandelbrot

Rest easy.
 
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