Benoît B. Mandelbrot，the father of fractal geometry, has died at age 85 from pancreatic cancer. He passed away at a hospice in Cambridge, MA on October 14th

分形几何之父，本华·曼德博，由于胰腺癌于2010-10-14在Cambridge, MA一家医院以85岁高龄去世。R.I.P.

下面这张图片来自他的个人官方网站

本华·曼德博 最伟大最经典的发现就是下面的曼德勃罗集合

参考：
Wikipedia:
Mandelbrot set
Benoit Mandelbrot TED 2010 talk
Fractals and the art of roughness(Youtube)

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