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Benoît B Mandelbrot: the man who made geometry an art, guardian.co.uk
Excerpt: Few recent thinkers have woven such a beautiful braid of art and science as Benoît B Mandelbrot, who has died aged 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (The B apparently doesn't stand for anything. He just felt like adding it.) Mandelbrot was a provocative mathematician, a subversive geometer. He left a beautiful legacy in visual art, for Mandelbrot was the man who named and explained fractals â€" those complex, apparently chaotic yet geometrically ordered shapes that delight the eye and fascinate the mind. They are icons of modern understanding of the universe's complexity.
- Source: Benoît B Mandelbrot: the man who made geometry an art
[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/oct/19/benoit-b-mandelbrot-geometry-art ], Jonathan Jones, guardian.co.uk, 2010/10/19