In memoriam Benoit Mandelbrot

[karohemd]

Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85

Comments

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

I first heard of fractals in 1975 when I was ten. Some of us had extra maths classes with the headmaster in junior school. He taught us to draw them on paper using recursive methods. The next time I came across them I used fractals in a post-graduate study of turbulence modelling. I used them to model sub-grid stresses. So when Mandelbrot was in town for a visit I went along to see him talk at the Methodist Central Hall, just across the road from where I now work. I've been there three times now, for a comic fair, to see Mandelbrot and to listen to our new coalition ministers Cable and Willets. Unfortunately, of these three, Mandelbrot was the least interesting.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Big brains don't necessarily have to be the best speakers/interesting people.

[mazzarc.livejournal.com]

A fitting memorial. Mathematics & Science is a little less now, let's hope someone new can do as much in the field.