Mandelbrot dies at 85. RIP.

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

Science

17 Oct 10 12:02

sonhouse

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17 Oct 10 12:02

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101

He changed the study of randomness forever.

adam warlock

Baby Gauss

Ceres

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17 Oct 10 14:07

Originally posted by sonhouse
He changed the study of randomness forever.

He did?

sonhouse

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17 Oct 10 23:11

Originally posted by adam warlock
He did?

Read the article. He found order in apparent randomness.

twhitehead

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18 Oct 10 07:42

I am not sure that fractals really have anything to do with randomness.

As for Mandelbrot, I taught myself programming largely by doing programs to draw Mandelbrot sets (and the related Julia sets).

Shallow Blue

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18 Oct 10 21:20

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101

He changed the study of randomness forever.

Gosh - I wasn't aware that he was still alive. An important person indeed.

Richard

sonhouse

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21 Oct 10 00:44

Does anyone here know of awards Mandelbrot received? Fields medal?

Swlabr

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26 Oct 10 11:10

No fields medal; only 10 were awarded before he was too old.