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Delta Whiskey · 16-10-2010, 16:28

"Benoit 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. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us...er=rss&emc=rss

Mandelbrot Images:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=man...=1920&bih=1013

I had to smile at this comment, in bad taste in all probability. "Thank God he wasn't murdered. It would have taken the cops forever to draw the chalk outline." - Andy Ihnatko on Twitter.

16-10-2010, 16:28	#1
Delta Whiskey Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Abertawe Services: 10Mb BB, DTV & Phone Posts: 2,859	Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85 "Benoit 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. " http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us...er=rss&emc=rss Mandelbrot Images: http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=man...=1920&bih=1013 I had to smile at this comment, in bad taste in all probability. "Thank God he wasn't murdered. It would have taken the cops forever to draw the chalk outline." - Andy Ihnatko on Twitter.