Benoît Mandelbrot, the father of fractals, passed away on 14th October at the age of 85. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer.
I used to spend hours generating fractals for no other reason than to see what they looked like.
Born in Poland, on 20th November 1924 he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United States, acquiring dual French and American citizenship.
The Mandelbrot Set: Wikipedia
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