Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 131
Beetle B. writes "Benoit Mandelbrot has passed away at the age of 85. I first learned of the Mandelbrot set while reading Arthur C. Clarke's The Ghost From The Grand Banks. Soon after, I got hold of the best fractal generation software of the day — Fractint — and ran it for long periods of time on my XT, exploring the beautiful world that Mandelbrot, among others, had opened up for me. That it was only on a 4-color CGA did not deter me!"
From Life ... (Score:4, Funny)
to the Hausdorf Dimension!
Check out the obit on the New York Times (Score:4, Funny)
You can use your browser to zoom into it infinitely revealing more patterns.
Mandelbrot plot (Score:5, Funny)
damn you rss! (Score:5, Funny)
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rss takes another victim...
Re:Dead? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but he replicates in ever smaller iterations.
Re:From Life ... (Score:4, Funny)
Good luck using Google Maps to zoom in on his graveyard.
Re:Fractal mathematicians don't die (Score:3, Funny)
And lesser fleas have smaller fleas, so on ad infinitum.
Re:Fractal mathematicians don't die (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dead? (Score:4, Funny)
And if anyone knows about still being alive, it's Jonathan Coulton.
Seen it all (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but when you've seen one part of the Mandelbrot set, you've seen it all.
Re:From Life ... (Score:3, Funny)
Have you tried Google Maths?
Re:Dead? (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Fractal mathematicians don't die (Score:3, Funny)
If reincarnation is true, he'll come back as twins.
Fractals are addictive. Like SWINTH for the Commode64, watching a fire, or Hypnotoad.