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Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85

Posted by Soulskill on from the edges-are-interesting dept.

Beetle B. writes "Benoit Mandelbrot has passed away at the age of 85. I first learned of the Mandelbrot set while reading Arthur C. Clarke's The Ghost From The Grand Banks. Soon after, I got hold of the best fractal generation software of the day — Fractint — and ran it for long periods of time on my XT, exploring the beautiful world that Mandelbrot, among others, had opened up for me. That it was only on a 4-color CGA did not deter me!"

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  1. Check out the obit on the New York Times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can use your browser to zoom into it infinitely revealing more patterns.

  2. Mandelbrot plot by JohannesJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    In school we had to plot Mandelbrots. Now Mandelbrot has a plot of his own.

  3. damn you rss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/16/1446231/Benoit-Mandelbrot-Dies-At-85?from=rss

    rss takes another victim...

  4. Re:From Life ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good luck using Google Maps to zoom in on his graveyard.

  5. Re:Fractal mathematicians don't die by fractoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too long, lacks pithiness. Vin Diesel's character, Riddick, put it better in Pitch Black: "Got it all wrong, Holy Man. I absolutely believe in God. And I absolutely hate the fucker." Much more concise.

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  6. Re:Dead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And if anyone knows about still being alive, it's Jonathan Coulton.

  7. Seen it all by dgriff · · Score: 5, Funny

    ran it for long periods of time [...] exploring the beautiful world

    Yeah, but when you've seen one part of the Mandelbrot set, you've seen it all.