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Author Topic: Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010), Father of Fractal Geometry has died.  (Read 19948 times)
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« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2010, 05:01:40 PM »

that is shocking! and i feel very sad now, one of my goals was to meet this guy in real live, may he rest in peace!

a great person has left the earth, but he will be remembered as one of the greatest scientist in the 20th/21th Century!
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« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2010, 05:12:21 PM »

I hope that humanity in the 21st century will finally realize how important it is to study fractals in order to enhance universal knowledge...

I also would have loved to see Mr Mandelbrot in a conference...
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« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2010, 05:43:04 PM »

Sad news.

Mr. Mandelbrot's research inspired my love towards fractals. He did things that no one else had done before, and he endowed us with the knowledge, that beauty is infinite and infinity is beautiful.

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« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2010, 06:01:15 PM »

Very sad news and a big loss.
The end of an era in a way.
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« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2010, 06:19:09 PM »



To paraphrase William Wallace, "Every man dies.  Not every man iterates towards infinity."

I think once you've made your mark on the world, you effect the way things unfold from then on.  He may not be doing any new work, or saying any new words, but to call him "gone" wouldn't exactly be true.

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« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2010, 06:58:03 PM »

So sorry to hear this -- a wonderful modest and funny man -- the man who almost singlehandedly connected math and intuition --thank you for the views, the vistas, the forms nobody ever saw before, thank you and have a good trip -- assuming you will get lost in fractals as I hope, where I will be going someday.
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« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2010, 07:03:12 PM »

Really sad news.  shocked shocked shocked
Not many people can be credited for a new paradigm in science. He was one of them.
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« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2010, 07:41:40 PM »

 sad cry
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« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2010, 08:23:05 PM »

Here are a few of his published papers housed over at arxiv.org

http://arxiv.org/find/math/1/au:+Mandelbrot_B/0/1/0/all/0/1
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« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2010, 09:29:19 PM »

noooooooo  cry
it was announced in a lot of french media  cry
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« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2010, 10:17:49 PM »

Here are a few of his published papers housed over at arxiv.org

http://arxiv.org/find/math/1/au:+Mandelbrot_B/0/1/0/all/0/1

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« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2010, 10:51:56 PM »

Very sad to hear this, he seemed to be a very sympathic guy...
who knows if this forum would exists without his work.

So thank you and all the best for your next life!

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« Reply #27 on: October 16, 2010, 11:16:08 PM »

Everything seems to be gearing up. Tracking, obituary, even the bad taste humour...

Laughing in the face of bad times is a time honored way of coping.

If I may (and nobody be offended at this) I'd like to share two of the bad taste humour comments that actually made me laugh!

On one board somebody posted this:

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Police found his body in the living room, but when they tried to trace a chalk outline, they found they had to make tighter and tighter turns at the edges until the outline became transcendental and stuff.

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Oh, frak.  sad

If anyone has any others that were truly funny, and not disrespectful, I say it's OK to share them.  (If Trifox disagrees, he can delete this post!)  (I'd understand)

We can mourn his passing, but let's not forget to celebrate his Life at the same time!
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« Reply #28 on: October 16, 2010, 11:28:00 PM »

LOL.  I'm sure he would have laughed had he been around to hear it.

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« Reply #29 on: October 16, 2010, 11:56:41 PM »

He has left, over the years, an infinity of small copies of himself around him, dense and strongly connected, wherever you look.
I somehow feel like one of them.
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