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Newsletter: Math Forum Internet News No. 15.43 (22 Oct 10)
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October 22, 2010 Vol. 15, No. 43
THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS
Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
Free Mentoring Opportunities | Mike de Villiers
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BENOIT MANDELBROT, 1924-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html
Benoit Mandelbrot, known as a maverick mathematician who
originated the field of fractal geometry, died last week at the
age of 85.
Rudy Rucker wrote of his 2001 visit with Mandelbrot:
http://tinyurl.com/27sq442
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Mike de Villiers, a professor of math and math education at the
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, offers a page of
downloadable articles, papers, and other teaching material:
http://mzone.mweb.co.za/residents/profmd/homepage4.html
Resources linked from that page include:
Newsletter (roughly quarterly), with information about new math
books, conferences, websites, etc.
http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/profmd/newsletter.html
Dynamic geometry sketches
http://math.kennesaw.edu/~mdevilli/JavaGSPLinks.htm
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924-2010</font></p>
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Benoît Mandelbrot, known as a maverick mathematician who
originated the field of fractal geometry, died last week at the
age of 85.</p>
<p>Rudy Rucker wrote of his 2001 visit with Mandelbrot:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/10/16/remembering-benoit-mandelbrot/">http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/10/16/remembering-benoit-mandelbrot/</a></p>
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books, conferences, websites, etc.</p>
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<p>Dynamic geometry sketches</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://math.kennesaw.edu/~mdevilli/JavaGSPLinks.htm">http://math.kennesaw.edu/~mdevilli/JavaGSPLinks.htm</a></p>
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