Tuesday, October 30, 2012

‘The Fractalist,’ Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s Math Memoir - NYTimes.com

‘The Fractalist,’ Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s Math Memoir - NYTimes.com:

"When I find myself in the company of scientists,” W. H. Auden wrote, “I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.” Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) had the kind of beautiful, buzzing mind that made even gifted fellow scientists feel shabby around the edges. Mandelbrot is said to have revitalized visual geometry and coined the term “fractal” to refer to a new class of mathematical shapes that uncannily mimic the irregularities found in nature.

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