A giant lost.
When fractal theory began to gain acceptance I had a small computer program that illustrated the principle. I spent quite a bit of time just watching the patterns develop.
1 posted on
10/16/2010 8:13:37 AM PDT by
tlb
To: tlb
Sad. In the whole, he is gone.
2 posted on
10/16/2010 8:16:09 AM PDT by
llevrok
(Born a ham and never cured.)
To: tlb
3 posted on
10/16/2010 8:17:28 AM PDT by
patton
(Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
To: tlb
““The length of the coastline, in a sense, is infinite.””
I don’t get it. The length of a coastline if measured from the mean high tide could be measured to be a known quantity.
Is the infinite description a relative term based on observation from different perspectives?
4 posted on
10/16/2010 8:24:49 AM PDT by
Rebelbase
(Palin/Christie 2012)
To: tlb
5 posted on
10/16/2010 8:25:46 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: tlb
What a great life. What a great mind.
Sad to see him go but he lived to see his work touch people’s lives almost every day in areas from cinema to finance and investing. His thoughts will influence mathematicians for centuries.
7 posted on
10/16/2010 8:31:45 AM PDT by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Anyone who has read Roman history knows a barbarian invasion when they see one.)
To: tlb
I was never close to him, but I assume he looked the same from any distance.
Thank you, I’m here all week! Try the veal!
9 posted on
10/16/2010 8:41:57 AM PDT by
Johnny B.
To: tlb
Rest easy Dr. Mandelbrot.
14 posted on
10/16/2010 8:50:18 AM PDT by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: tlb
A giant lost.It is hard to believe he's only 85, with all of the math theory he developed, explained and applied over the decades. Fractals are beautiful....they connect so much in the hypothetical and real world, and provide an underlying logic to almost everything that happens.
15 posted on
10/16/2010 8:57:08 AM PDT by
grania
To: tlb
RIP, sir. You made a mark in history.
To: tlb
To: tlb
It was only until I was exposed to Mandelbrot’s approach to probability did I find an perspective that matched my own sympathies about randomness, especially in relationship to economics and financial markets. I never completed the dissertation that I started under him, but enjoyed the effort anyway.
To: tlb
21 posted on
10/16/2010 11:39:03 AM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: tlb
Yep! His work helped explain why two different sets of xrays showed a different count on the number of fractaled ribs I sustained in an accident.
Fortunately the judge (presiding at the subsequent trial three years later) was familiar with Mandelbrot’s work...
23 posted on
10/16/2010 6:23:57 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: tlb
24 posted on
10/17/2010 3:05:29 AM PDT by
Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: tlb
26 posted on
10/17/2010 3:19:54 AM PDT by
dennisw
(- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confuscius.)
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