Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com

Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com: "He was 85.
pioneering work in chaos theory.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Aliette, said. He had lived in Cambridge.

Dr. Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal”"