Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Great ideas are usually laughed at.
Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85
In a seminal book, “The Fractal Geometry of Nature,” published in 1982, Dr. Mandelbrot defended mathematical objects that his colleagues had dismissed as “monstrous” and “pathological.”
I wonder whatever became of those colleagues?
Will they ever have noteworthy obits?
