Mandelbrot est mort! RIP

[dugnsuz]

The father of fractal geometry passed away...

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

Vale...

[noswonky]

I remember well spending long hours generating Mandelbrot sets for programming assignments at uni.

RIP Mandy Brotty!

[gary]

Sorry to hear this. He helped us see the world in a way it had not been perceived before.
His insights have provided much utility in the world of engineering and computer science.

[SkyViking]

Sad to loose such a brilliant mind... R.I.P Benoit Mandelbrot!
Personally I'm a long time addict, having made numerous programs to calculate Mandelbrot Sets and other fractals since the 90's.
Very apropos, I'm currently working on an nVidia CUDA implementation with the purpose of calculating the next digit in the area of the Mandelbrot Set. This is a number that is only known with a handful of digits' accuracy due to the immense computational requirements.
Fractals are just awesome, and Benoit Mandelbrot will be greatly missed!

[Max Vondel]

The man had great mathematical insights.
And the world is richer because of him.
Thanks
R.I.P
:thanx:

[Lee]

I remember typing in some BASIC code in my old Amstrad-64.... it then processed all night to produce some fractals - what my laptop does in a fraction of a second.

[Satchmo]

Yes indeed. Sad news. It was his application of fractal mathematics to the description of Nature that was pure genius.

I've spent many pleasurable hours exploring the Mandlebrot set.

This self- contained 'sprite' or fractal `dust particle' of which I have found many variants deep inside , when viewed on your computer screen , puts the whole Mandlebrot set at zero zoom , about the size of the Milky Way galaxy !

[PCH]

I'm not the cleverest person around - that's for sure. But I'm probably not the thickest either. The thing is, I can't even understand what you said with regard to the ... "This self...... galaxy".

Any chance it could be explained in words of one syllable or less please. It sounds interesting enough to want to know more :thumbsup:

[Satchmo]

Paul

The image I showed in my post is an object O found a result of zooming into the graphical form of the mathematical Mandlebrot set using Fractal generating software.

If you start with the classical Mandlebrot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set) as you'll see in the picture in this link, filling you r computer screen , and keep zooming in so that your computer screen is a magnifying window- by the time you find the `mandala' that I displayed in my last post -filling the screen , the original set we started off with would now be as big as the Milky Way.

If you can wade through the Wikipedia entry on Fractals you will get an excellent summary of the field .

[CraigS]

Benoit Madelbrot was a truly amazing mathematician.

I can't quite recall whether it was "The Colours of Infinity" or "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" (by Mandelbrot, himself), or "Chaos" (by James Gleick) where the simple question was posed:

"What is the length of the coastline of England ?"

The answer:

"Infinite length".

An astounding answer … but true, as any coastline is fractal in its nature - self similar at all levels and scale invariant.

Farewell Benoit Mandelbrot .. a true pioneer of Science with profound insights and vision. His gifts to mankind were literally, unfathomable.
(As in beyond measurability).

Cheers