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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. Dead? by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't know he was still alive. So much for assumptions.

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    "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
  2. Re:Fractint? Pah? by Viperpete · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was going to post much the same thing. Some nerd eulogy, 10 words pertaining to the death of a math hero, ~70 devoted to the author. Can we get more HF Asperger/Narcissistic.

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  3. He didn't really die, you know by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if you look closer, you'll realize that he didn't die, it's just he became too big for us to see.

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    You can't handle the truth.
  4. Mandelbrot Set by dirkson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He gave us order out of chaos; he gave us hope where there was none. And his geometry succeeds where others fail. Mandelbrot's in heaven.