R.I.P. Benoit Mandelbrot

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QuoteHis seminal works, Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension and The Fractal Geometry of Nature, were published in 1977 and 1982. In these, he argued that seemingly random mathematical shapes in fact followed a pattern if broken down into a single repeating shape.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11560110

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