Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.
Dr. Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” to refer to a new class of mathematical shapes whose uneven contours could mimic the irregularities found in nature.
And the fractal of all this? We’re all going to die! Damn, I seriously wanted to meet this guy.
Well I almost met elvis one time but my shovel
broke. Death the great equalizer!
Mandelbrot brought a great deal of beauty to
our computer screens. He will be missed.
fracthell–good one. Yea, what happens when the SuperRich actually do start living longer? Nice to spin that one out a while.
Sounds like soundwash is off his meds again.
Not to be pedantic, but I think an actual -Mandelbrot- fractal would have been more appropriate for the post image…
“We’re all going to die!”
Ray Kurzweil isn’t going to.
The only thing I’m sure about the future is that I won’t see most of it.
But hey, if it is a fractal and looks the same at any given scale….