The simple arithmetic error that unnecessarily sent countless plastic spatulas into the trash over a toxic chemical scare came to light a few days ago as Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s ...
Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1924, the improbably named Benoît B Mandelbröt – the ”B” stands for a non-existent middle name – would be so important to the story of fractal geometry that he pretty ...