Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85

[Andrew Robinson]

I remember reading about his work in Scientific American when I was at
school, and then bravely (or foolhardily if you prefer) trying to get
a BBC Model B computer running BASIC to draw the Mandelbrot set. It
actually worked, too - took about 4 hours to render something that
very vaguely had the right shape (I was bailing out after about 16
iterations, I think).

Here's a lovely portrait of the gerat man from Cyriak of B3ta:

http://i.cr3ation.co.uk/dl/s1/gif/847032b8a331def77529b6a0384db1fe_mandelbrot.gif

- Andy_R