R.I.P. Benoit Mandelbrot, Who Laughed Last

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?

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