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Title: Remembering Benoit Mandelbrot!
Post by: gunug on October 17, 2010, 03:58:52 PM

http://www.providingnews.com/benoit-mandel...away-at-85.html



Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry and a man of many parts, died today at age 85!  I have spent a great number of hours (days) trying to better understand fractals and what you can do with them and I know I am only one of his many mourners!  This is a great memoir of meeting Benoit Mandelbrot by author Rudy Rucker:

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/10/16/...oit-mandelbrot/

Title: Remembering Benoit Mandelbrot!
Post by: krissel on October 18, 2010, 10:59:41 PM

Thanks for the links.  My sister is a big fractal freak.    Have to pass this on.

Title: Remembering Benoit Mandelbrot!
Post by: gunug on October 19, 2010, 01:03:38 AM

It's amazing to think of all the things that can be approached through fractal geometry; a lot was going on in his mind!  I guess his influence will be ongoing like that of Buckminster Fuller and all of the other thinkers that exist now only in our minds and the works they left behind!