While surfing on the web looking for some specific information about fractals, I read about a sad new for the World of Mathematics: Benoit Mandelbrot, the great polish born mathematician that developed the idea of what now we call Fractals, passed away on 14th of October.
In the obituary written for The guardian we can find some basic information about his life and achievements :http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/17/benoit-mandelbrot-obituary.
