EARLY LOOK: Isolated Curiosities

“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” -Benoît Mandelbrot To say Benoît Mandelbrot lived a great life would be an understatement.  The recently deceased Sterling Professor of Mathematial Sciences at Yale University had the opportunity to follow and study [...]