News Benoit Mandelbrot RIP

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101

Benoit Mandelbrot, who discovered mathematical shapes known as fractals, has died of cancer at the age of 85.

Sad loss, had a lot of fun with fractals.

 

[streb2001]

I discovered the Mandelbrot set reading "Ghost form the Grand Banks" by Arthur C Clarke in the early 90's. Rekindled my interest in mathematics and I also taught myself C on the Amiga 500+ so I could write my own Mandelbrot plotter.

R.I.P.

s2k1

 

[Sunhillow]

Rest in Peace, Benoît!

My first mandelbrot calculator was written in turbo pascal and ran more than a day on an 8086 CPU :facepalm:
And printing it in grayscale (sic!) on a 9-pin needle printer sounded like a flock of geese at the butcher's

 

[Wishbone]

Rest in peace. You will always be remembered - not only because of the beauty of fractals, but also for your brilliant statistics insights.

 

[dougkeenan]

 

[Quick_Nick]

Sad loss of a great guy, but he lived a long life. RIP
I've made a java mandelbrot program. And I'm a fan of the mandelbulb.