News of the death of Benoît Mandelbrot should lead us to reflect on his creative work over wide areas of mathematics, his innovative use of computer graphics to convey his results, and his enthusiastic popularisation of his works, through books such as The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Mandelbrot, whose obituary in the Guardian gives a… Continue reading Benoît Mandelbrot and the self-similarity of information
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