Abstract
Benoit Mandelbrot, recently deceased French and American mathematician, was born in Warsaw in 1924. In 1936 he and his family fled the Nazis and in France joined his uncle Szolem Mandelbrojt, professor of mathematics at College de France. After attending Ecole Polytechnique, he studied linguistics and proved Zipf’s law. He was an extremely original scientist who with the invention of fractals created a new concept with applications in numerous fields of science and art. His unconventional approach was well accepted when he came to IBM in 1958. He was also a professor at Yale University (1999–2005). In 1981 he published an article in Leonardo [1]. The concept of fractals unites and gives a solid mathematical framework, as Mandelbrot liked to emphasize, to ideas that artists, scientists and philosophers of art have sometimes intuited more or less clearly. Let me start with this striking quotation from Eugene Delacroix’s Journal in 1857:
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