A cabo de leer en la web de Eliatron la noticia de la muerte de Benoït Mandelbrot, aunque el la wiki aparece que murió el 14, hace dos días.
Mandelbrot died in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 14 October 2010, the cause of death was pancreatic cancer. He was eighty five years old.
Según publica hoy The New York Times
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.
¡Que descanse en paz!
Enlaces de interés:
- Benoït Mandelbrot 20/11/1924-16/10/2010, Tito Eliatron Dixit
- Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85, nytimes.com
- Benoît Mandelbrot, wiki