Benoît 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.


- bill 10-16-2010 6:28 pm

Yeah, and worked for years at IBM joint in Yorktown Heights down the road from my high school....Id never heard of him back then of course...
sdb
- Michelle S 10-19-2010 5:15 am [add a comment]