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Famed mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, dead at 85
October 18th, 2010 |
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Benoit Mandelbrot, whose pioneering work on fractal geometry made him one of the few modern mathematicians to approach widespread fame, died October 14 at the age of 85. The cause, his wife told The New York Times, was pancreatic cancer. Mandelbrot coined the term "fractal" in 1975 to describe irregular shapes in nature and in [...]
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