Editing Benoit Mandelbrot (section)

== Death and legacy ==
Mandelbrot died from [[pancreatic cancer]] at the age of 85 in a [[hospice]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], on 14 October 2010.<ref name="nyt_obit" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Benoît Mandelbrot, fractals pioneer, dies |url=http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/10/16/Benoit-Mandelbrot-fractals-pioneer-dies/UPI-11551287266964/ |access-date=17 October 2010 |newspaper=United Press International |date=16 October 2010 |archive-date=22 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022020458/http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/10/16/Benoit-Mandelbrot-fractals-pioneer-dies/UPI-11551287266964/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Reacting to news of his death, mathematician [[Heinz-Otto Peitgen]] said: "[I]f we talk about impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, he is one of the most important figures of the last fifty years."<ref name="nyt_obit" />

[[Chris Anderson (entrepreneur)|Chris Anderson]], [[TED (conference)|TED conference]] curator, described Mandelbrot as "an icon who changed how we see the world".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://montrealgazette.com/technology/Mandelbrot+father+fractal+geometry+dies/3682961/story.html |title=Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, dies |work=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]] |access-date=16 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019233754/http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Mandelbrot%2Bfather%2Bfractal%2Bgeometry%2Bdies/3682961/story.html |archive-date=19 October 2010 }}</ref> [[Nicolas Sarkozy]], [[President of France]] at the time of Mandelbrot's death, said Mandelbrot had "a powerful, original mind that never shied away from innovating and shattering preconceived notions&nbsp;[... h]is work, developed entirely outside mainstream research, led to modern information theory."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2010/10/16/97001-20101016FILWWW00611-sarkozy-rend-hommage-a-mandelbrot.php |title=Sarkozy rend hommage à Mandelbrot |language=fr |trans-title=Sarkozy pays homage to Mandelbrot |work=[[Le Figaro]] |access-date=17 October 2010 |archive-date=28 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728181450/http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2010/10/16/97001-20101016FILWWW00611-sarkozy-rend-hommage-a-mandelbrot.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Mandelbrot's obituary in ''The Economist'' points out his fame as "celebrity beyond the academy" and lauds him as the "father of fractal geometry".<ref>[http://www.economist.com/node/17305197 Benoît Mandelbrot's obituary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024200744/http://www.economist.com/node/17305197 |date=24 October 2010 }}. ''The Economist'' (21 October 2010)</ref>

Best-selling essayist-author [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]] has remarked that Mandelbrot's book ''The (Mis)Behavior of Markets'' is in his opinion "The deepest and most realistic finance book ever published".<ref name=nature/>