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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:BRILLIANT by stratjakt · · Score: -1, Troll

    (Invented? Discovered? Well, whatever, you know what I mean.)

    How about stole from Julia?

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  2. Re:Fractal compression by Ignignot · · Score: 1, Troll

    Bleh sorry, bad link. This is the right one. Waiting two minutes to post the correction........

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  3. cu8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Due to the Troubles and the striking

  4. Thank goodness that Mandelbrot is a Westerner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The good news is that Mandelbrot is part of Western society. If he were in Chinese society, his brilliant mind would be devoted to concocting "better" means of torturing prisoners, women, children, Tibetans, etc. [tibet.org].