Interview With Benoit Mandelbrot from bigthink.com

via bigthink.com

A brilliant summary of Mandelbrot's Fractals from the man himself. He has left a significant (and possibly self-repeating) hole in the world of science and mathematics.

Benoit Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010)

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