Sunday 17 October 2010

Link of the Day- death of Benoit Mandelbrot


Prof. Benoit Mandelbrot in 2007- image by Rama. For image license details, click [here]

Good Morning.
Welcome to Weirdbeautiful

Today I just have this link for you reporting the death on Thursday of the Mathematician and "Father of Fractals", Benoit Mandelbrot-

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1287320679-rJKXF44A27LV1YxQGYEYrQ
He was 85.

Maths is a very strange subject in so many ways and fractals/fractal geomtery is one of its weirder and more beautiful expressions. There is more information on Prof. Mandelbrot's work- including the famous Mandelbrot Set(s) here-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot

and here- http://www.math.yale.edu/mandelbrot/web_pdfs/mavericksApprenticeship.pdf



The image above is a picture from a Mandelbrot Set by Wolfgang Beyer taken from wikipedia [HERE]- details of the image license are [here]. The image below (also by Wolfgang Beyer) is another from the same set, this time, the 11th picture in the sequence. Licence details are [here]



Thanks to Komal for the New York Times link.

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