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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flipside on October 17, 2010, 01:47:17 pm

Title: Benoit Mandelbrot dies :(
Post by: Flipside on October 17, 2010, 01:47:17 pm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101

Benoit Mandelbrot dies at 85 of cancer. It's amazing, when you think back, just how much impact this man had on our view of the Universe around us.
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Post by: The E on October 17, 2010, 01:52:01 pm: Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlwFpz9s_I
Title: Re: Benoit Mandelbrot dies :(
Post by: Thaeris on October 17, 2010, 05:18:00 pm: This is a sad bit of news. Even more depressing is that you'll probably never hear a spot on him on one of the major US news networks, either. Things and people that matter aren't important enough to inform the populace, you know... :(

Anyway, his accent isn't helped by the fact that he was working on in his years in this video, but here is the great man himself on TED:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html

Sleep well, Sir, sleep well.
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Post by: General Battuta on October 17, 2010, 05:28:01 pm: One of my favorite novels as a younger chap was about a woman who was looking for her dead daughter in the Mandelbrot set. Decent times.

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This is a sad bit of news. Even more depressing is that you'll probably never hear a spot on him on one of the major US news networks, either. Things and people that matter aren't important enough to inform the populace, you know...

Don't be a moron, his death was right there in the NYT. And if you try to get your news by TV you deserve what you get.
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Post by: Polpolion on October 17, 2010, 07:06:26 pm: Quote from: Thaeris on October 17, 2010, 05:18:00 pm
This is a sad bit of news. Even more depressing is that you'll probably never hear a spot on him on one of the major US news networks, either. Things and people that matter aren't important enough to inform the populace, you know... :(

Silly Thaeris! Stuff doesn't get put on the news because it's important!
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Post by: Mongoose on October 17, 2010, 07:31:42 pm: Man, we had an old version of Microsoft Encarta that had an interactive zoom into the Mandelbrot set. I didn't even completely understand what fractals were at that age, but I was fascinated by its appearance. He was definitely a very great mind. :(
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Post by: iamzack on October 18, 2010, 07:37:00 am: I used to have a neat fractal program, but I lost it. I liked making pretty pictures with it.

Unfortunately, I was also an emo little 12 year old. :<

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v54/39/38/503449348/n503449348_8584_2355.jpg)
Title: Re: Benoit Mandelbrot dies :(
Post by: Titan on October 18, 2010, 04:30:52 pm: Quote from: iamzack on October 18, 2010, 07:37:00 am
Unfortunately, I was also an emo little 12 year old. :<

So... what does that make you now?
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Post by: iamzack on October 18, 2010, 06:10:17 pm: emo little 19 year old
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Post by: ssmit132 on October 18, 2010, 06:52:43 pm: Quote from: Mongoose on October 17, 2010, 07:31:42 pm
Man, we had an old version of Microsoft Encarta that had an interactive zoom into the Mandelbrot set. I didn't even completely understand what fractals were at that age, but I was fascinated by its appearance. He was definitely a very great mind. :(
We had to do a whole assignment on the Mandlebrot set in year 11 Maths C. Most of the class found it annoying, but I thought it was all right. Our head of department for Maths was (and still is) infatuated with the Mandlebrot set. I wonder if she knows... :(