Dave Lull just wrote to inform me that NNT has updated his homepage as an homage to Benoit Mandelbrot. Looking around the net I see no news of Mandelbrot’s passing so must assume that NNT was very close to the situation.

In May, NNT Tweeted, “Mandelbrot’s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces”

Taleb referred to Mandelbrot as his mentor.
The two were interviewed by NPR in 2008.

Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Taleb NPR Interview, Audio Only.

Paul Solman NPR Interview 2008 10 21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFkQdiXPbo

with Spanish captions: