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Benoît Mandelbrot

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That's kind of depressing news. More depressing was the fact that the people I was with when I heard this had never heard of mandelbrot :(

added on the 2010-10-17 00:06:30 by psonice

Rest in peace, in an ever lasting zoom.

added on the 2010-10-17 00:24:32 by Frequent

When the guys and gals from [d]vision were preparing the Realtime Generation exhibition in Vienna, they had plans to invite Mandelbrot as a special guest to deliver a speech. In the end it didn't work out though. Now it won't ever happen.

added on the 2010-10-17 13:56:40 by Adok

RIP :(

added on the 2010-10-17 16:21:52 by faraday

I liked this tribute.

added on the 2010-10-17 20:20:02 by xeron

RIP

added on the 2010-10-17 21:51:39 by numtek

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added on the 2010-10-17 22:26:22 by baah

added on the 2010-10-18 00:30:13 by numtek

added on the 2010-10-18 01:14:30 by bdk

I met Monsieur Mandelbrot a few times (even gave a lecture with him!); he was smart as hell, and had a whole life of stories to tell. He was very conscious of his relevance for maths and philosophy. Besides, his work influenced (and will continue doing) a massive amount of people, from professional mathematicians to computer hobbyist kids as we are/were. In fact, I can tell that my life branched towards computer graphics, without further possibility of recovery, when I rendered my first Mandelbrot set when I was a boy. So was for many other demosceners around here. Thanks so much Benoit Mandelbrot!

added on the 2010-10-18 23:37:13 by iq