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Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot

Posted by timothy on from the strange-bread-loops dept.

Vertigo01 writes "New Scientist is currently featuring an interview with Benoit Mandelbrot the father of the Mandelbrot set, and the man who discovered fractals. 'What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.'"

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  1. Re:Quote from TFA by Phragmen-Lindelof · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mandelbrot is not as smart as he claims to be. As I recall, fractal compression was developed by mathematicians at ANU (Canberra). Mandelbrot made some contributions but so did other people. It is unfortunate but, as with all disciplines, there are "mathematicians" who have huge egos and little regard for the contributions of others (and "no", I have never done any research on fractals and am not one of the people whose contribution is usually ignored by Mandelbrot - I have no personal ax to grind).