RIP Benoit Mandelbrot...

[Rhalph]

It seems Benoit Mandelbrot just died

http://kottke.org/10/10/benoit-mandelbrot-rip

[cyphyr]

THanks for passing this on.
Without his knowledge I doubt most of us (any of us) would be doing what we love to do so much.
Richard

[Henry Blewer]

IBM did not know what to do with his math studies. He invented a whole substructure of applied mathematics.

[inkydigit]

the loss of a genius...

[freelancah]

Sad news indeed. May he rest in peace..

He was certainly an interesting person to listen to. Here's a quite new video of his talk in TED.
Some of you have probably seen it already but if you haven't, you should.

http://www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html