Oct 18
Benoit Mandelbrot Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 19:22 · 75 words · print
Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, a groundbreaking mathematician who sought in his work to confront the rough structure of the real world rather than settle for the smooth approximations upon which much science is based, died Oct. 14 in Cambridge, Mass., where he lived. He had pancreatic cancer.
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Survivors include his wife, the former Aliette Kagan; two sons, Laurent Mandelbrot of Paris and Didier Mandelbrot of Newton, Mass.; and three grandchildren.
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